Brain metastases in patients with breast cancer: new horizons

DG Kirsch, JS Loeffler - Clinical breast cancer, 2005 - Elsevier
Brain metastases occur in as many as one third of patients with disseminated breast cancer.
In this article, we discuss various presentations of brain metastases from breast cancer and
review evidence that supports different treatment options. Because no prospective,
randomized, controlled studies, to our knowledge, have focused solely on patients with brain
metastases from breast cancer, we will first review retrospective studies of patients with brain
metastases from breast cancer. Randomized studies of patients with brain metastases …