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Published in: Clinical & Experimental Metastasis 6-7/2017

01-10-2017 | Editorial

Curing brain metastases

Author: Rahul Jandial

Published in: Clinical & Experimental Metastasis | Issue 6-7/2017

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Cancers that invade the brain are universally fatal. The corrosive nature of invasive cancers on the delicate neurologic framework generates harrowing neurologic deficits that can be devastating on quality of life of our cancer patients. Despite significant advances in the diagnosis and management of brain metastases, poor prognoses are inevitable even with when applying the best standard treatment strategies. This sobering fact is an ugly confession that we are still far from winning the battle against cancer metastasis in the central nervous system (CNS). …
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Title
Curing brain metastases
Author
Rahul Jandial
Publication date
01-10-2017
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Clinical & Experimental Metastasis / Issue 6-7/2017
Print ISSN: 0262-0898
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7276
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10585-017-9866-6

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