Breast cancer brain metastases: The last frontier

Experimental Hematology and Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Leone, José Pablo ^a   Leone, Bernardo Amadeo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b Grupo Oncologico Cooperativo del Sur   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Breast cancer; Metastatic breast cancer

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; BEVACIZUMAB; CABAZITAXEL; CABOZANTINIB; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYTARABINE; DOCETAXEL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ETOPOSIDE; EVEROLIMUS; FOLATE RECEPTOR; LAPATINIB; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MEGESTROL ACETATE; METHOTREXATE; NAVELBINE; NERATINIB; PERTUZUMAB; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLACEBO; SORAFENIB; TAMOXIFEN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TOPOTECAN; TRASTUZUMAB; TRASTUZUMAB EMTANSINE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN SURGERY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG TARGETING; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER;

EID: 84978024386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40164-015-0028-8     Document Type: Review

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