However, the presence of intravascular tumor cells in the cerebral circulation does not always lead to the development of brain metastases. The development of brain metastases depends on the host ...

“It's not that easy for cells to grow in the brain,” said Marsha Rosner, a cancer biologist at the University of Chicago. “They need some help.” Recent studies have shown that cancer cells secrete ...

The three most common types of brain tumour are intracranial metastases, which spread from other primary sites of disease; meningiomas, which are mostly benign; and glioblastoma multiforme (GBM ...

Carbonell, W. S., Ansorge, O., Sibson, N. & Muschel, R. The vascular basement membrane as “soil” in brain metastasis. PLoS One 4, e5857 (2009). An assumption ...

An MRI of the brain and a PET scan may be done. If only one metastasis has occurred, there are several options. If there is no other cancer spread, the one metastasis can be surgically removed ...

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