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First National and Evidence-Based Guidelines for Brain Cancer Released
The guidelines were developed by a 20-member panel in various specialties over the last year after reviewing the literature and reaching a consensus for different treatments. The panel was headed by neurosurgeon Steven Kalkanis, M.D., co-director of the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
"In the last 10 years, there has been an explosion of new treatments for brain metastases: surgical resection, stereotactic radiosurgery, whole brain radiation therapy, partial brain radiation, chemotherapy and various combinations of all the above," says Dr. Kalkanis.
"Because of the growth of these new technologies, there has been wide variation among physicians in how to treat patients. And there hasn't been a central source on which treatment regimens give the best results," adds Dr. Kalkanis.
"Our primary goal was to identify best treatment practices leading to the best outcomes for patients."
According to Dr. Kalkanis, there were 1.4 million individuals with cancer in 2008. Of those, 30 to 40 percent will develop brain metastasis, tumors which travel to the brain from other areas of the body, usually the breast or lung.
On the other hand, there are about 17,000 new cases annually of primary malignant brain tumors, cancers that originate in the brain.
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