
Advances in treatment therapies for non-small cell lung cancer —including chemotherapy options capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier and widespread availability of precision radiotherapy devices — offer new strategies for the management of brain metastases, dramatically improving overall survival (OS).
“There has been quite a shift in the use of whole-brain irradiation versus stereotactic radiosurgery,” said Nagy Elsayyad, MD, a radiation oncologist and associate professor at the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Florida. “The whole idea of using irradiation or surgery has been that there are very few chemotherapeutic agents, until recently, that cross the blood-brain barrier.”
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