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Brain Metastases

A Clinician’s View

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Brain Metastasis

Part of the book series: Metastasis: A Monograph Series ((METS,volume 2))

Abstract

Cancer is the nation’s second leading cause of death. In 1977 there were 690,000 new cases of cancer in the United States and 385,000 deaths, over 1,000 deaths a day (Silverberg 1977). In one autopsy series from a general hospital, almost one-half of the deaths were due to cancer (Rosenblatt et al. 1971). Of those patients who die of cancer and its complications, the majority have suffered metastatic spread (Willis 1973; Hakulinen and Teppo 1977; Viadana et al. 1973,1978). Willis (1975) found metastatic disease in over 75% of 500 consecutive complete autopsies on patients with malignant disease. Over 10% of patients with cancer die as a direct result of that metastatic spread (Inagaki et al. 1974; Ambrus et al. 1975). In one series, disseminated metastases were the direct cause of death in 20% of patients with cancer, second only to infection (Klastersky et al. 1972).

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  1. Jerome B. Posner
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  1. Department of Experimental Pathology, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA

    Leonard Weiss Sc.D., M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Department of Radiation Therapy, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Harvey A. Gilbert M.D.

  3. Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    Jerome B. Posner M.D.

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Posner, J.B. (1980). Brain Metastases. In: Weiss, L., Gilbert, H.A., Posner, J.B. (eds) Brain Metastasis. Metastasis: A Monograph Series, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8799-9_1

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