Breast cancer brain metastases: Biology and new clinical perspectives

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Witzel, Isabell ^a   Oliveira Ferrer, Leticia ^a   Pantel, Klaus ^a   Müller, Volkmar ^a   Wikman, Harriet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; NOTCH RECEPTOR; WNT PROTEIN;

BIOLOGY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD TUMOR BARRIER; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUBTYPE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; EXTRAVASATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE SPECIFIC METASTASIS; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR CELL EXTRAVASATION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VESSEL COOPTION; ANIMAL; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; SECONDARY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 84954348470     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13058-015-0665-1     Document Type: Review

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