Novel strategies that are effective in
treating brain metastases in patients with lung cancer are needed.
The need for new approaches to
treating brain metastases is urgent, she will say.
Not exact matches
This means that when we rely on analysis of a primary tumour we may miss mutations in the
brain metastases that we could potentially target and
treat effectively with drugs.»
In the case of breast cancer driven by overexpression of the HER2 gene, up to 50 percent of patients
treated with targeted therapies eventually develop
brain metastases, which are inevitably fatal.