It has been suggested to replace the diagnosis - specific graded prognostic assessment (DS - GPA, based on performance status and
number of brain metastases) for patients with primary malignant melanoma with the new Melanoma - molGPA.
Patients were stratified by
number of brain metastases (1 vs. 2 - 3), primary cancer type (melanoma vs. other histology) and pre-operative tumor size (less than vs. greater than three centimeters).
A pre-surgery tumor size of greater than three centimeters was associated with worse LC, but local recurrence was not significantly affected by
the number of brain metastases or the patients» histology or graded prognosis assessments.
Not exact matches
The TGen team performed deep genomic profiling, integrating gene copy
number, gene expression and DNA methylation datasets on a collection
of 35 breast -
brain metastases samples.