Ten-Year Survival of a Patient Treated with Stereotactic Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases from Colon Cancer with Ovarian and Lymph Node Metastases: A Case Report

Ten-Year Survival of a Patient Treated with Stereotactic Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases from Colon Cancer with Ovarian and Lymph Node Metastases: A Case Report

Brain metastasis from colorectal cancer is infrequent and carries a poor prognosis. Herein, we present a patient alive 10 years after the identification of a first brain metastasis from sigmoid colon cancer. A 39-year-old woman underwent sigmoidectomy for sigmoid colon cancer during an emergency ope...

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Main Authors: Nobuhiro Morinaga, Naritaka Tanaka, Yoshinori Shitara, Masatoshi Ishizaki, Takatomo Yoshida, Hideaki Kouga, Kazuki Wakabayashi, Minoru Fukuchi, Yoshiyuki Tsunoda, Hiroyuki Kuwano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2016-05-01
Series:Case Reports in Gastroenterology
Subjects:
Colorectal cancer
Brain metastasis
Stereotactic Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Multidisciplinary therapy
Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/445976

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