Gastrointestinal cancer and brain metastasis: A rare and ominous sign

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3630-3640

  Go, Pauline H ^a,b   Klaassen, Zachary ^a,b   Meadows, Michael C ^a,b   Chamberlain, Ronald S ^a,b,c  

^a SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b St George's University School of Medicine   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^c University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

brain metastasis; colorectal cancer; esophageal cancer; gallbladder cancer; gastric cancer; gastrointestinal cancer; pancreatic cancer; radiosurgery; small bowel cancer; whole brain radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

IMATINIB; STEROID;

BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMALL INTESTINE CANCER; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; STOMACH CANCER; WHOLE BRAIN RADIATION THERAPY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 80051520165     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25940     Document Type: Review

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