Outcomes of Treatment for Melanoma Brain Metastases

202020 citationsJournal Articlegold Open Access

Authors

Mantas Janavicius · National Cancer Institute

Nadežda Lachej · National Cancer Institute

Giedrė Anglickienė · National Cancer Institute

Ieva Vincerževskienė · National Cancer Institute

Abstract

Patients with brain metastases achieved better overall survival when treated by combined treatment modalities: surgery followed by radiotherapy (26.6 months overall survival), combining surgery, radiotherapy, and systemic therapy (18.7 months overall survival), and also radiotherapy followed by systemic therapy (13.8 months overall survival).

Topics & Keywords

Brain Metastases and Treatment Melanoma and MAPK Pathways Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Journal of Skin Cancer

Volume 2020, pp. 1-10

DOI: 10.1155/2020/7520924

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