Researchers compared two common postsurgical therapies for metastatic brain tumors and found that stereotactic radiosurgery can provide better outcomes for patients compared to whole - brain radiation. (sciencedaily.com)
Until now, little research has been done into how metastatic brain tumors develop, but previous mouse experiments that imaged metastatic breast cancer cells over time have shown that of those cancer cells that do make it to the brain, fewer than one in 1,000 survive. (sciencedaily.com)
Tumors that originate in other organs of the body and spread to the brain are known as metastatic brain tumors. (sciencedaily.com)