TY - JOUR
T1 - Modern management for brain metastasis patients using stereotactic radiosurgery
T2 - Literature review and the authors’ gamma knife treatment experiences
AU - Higuchi, Yoshinori
AU - Yamamoto, Masaaki
AU - Serizawa, Toru
AU - Aiyama, Hitoshi
AU - Sato, Yasunori
AU - Barfod, Bierta E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Higuchi et al.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Historically, whole brain radiotherapy was administered to most patients with brain metastases. However, over the past three decades, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), targeted at individual cranial lesions, has been accepted widely. In this study, based on the authors’ experiences along with published data, recent trends in SRS for brain metastases are discussed. This article focuses on the following issues: 1) How many tumors can or should be treated with SRS? 2) Two-/three-staged SRS for relatively large tumors, 3) post-or preoperative SRS, and 4) repeat SRS.
AB - Historically, whole brain radiotherapy was administered to most patients with brain metastases. However, over the past three decades, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), targeted at individual cranial lesions, has been accepted widely. In this study, based on the authors’ experiences along with published data, recent trends in SRS for brain metastases are discussed. This article focuses on the following issues: 1) How many tumors can or should be treated with SRS? 2) Two-/three-staged SRS for relatively large tumors, 3) post-or preoperative SRS, and 4) repeat SRS.
KW - Brain metastases
KW - Gamma knife
KW - Radiosurgery
KW - Radiotherapy
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U2 - 10.2147/CMAR.S116718
DO - 10.2147/CMAR.S116718
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85057611820
SN - 1179-1322
VL - 10
SP - 1889
EP - 1899
JO - Cancer Management and Research
JF - Cancer Management and Research
ER -