Brain Metastases from Uterine Cervical and Endometrial Cancer

Kato, Mayumi Kobayashi and Tanase, Yasuhito and Uno, Masaya and Ishikawa, Mitsuya and Kato, Tomoyasu (2021) Brain Metastases from Uterine Cervical and Endometrial Cancer. Cancers, 13 (3). p. 519. ISSN 2072-6694

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Abstract

Reports on brain metastases (BMs) from uterine cervical carcinoma (CC) and uterine endometrial carcinoma (EC) have recently increased due to the development of massive databases and improvements in diagnostic procedures. This review separately investigates the prevalence, clinical characteristics, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of BMs from CC and uterine endometrial carcinoma EC. For patients with CC, early-stage disease and poorly differentiated carcinoma lead to BMs, and elderly age, poor performance status, and multiple BMs are listed as poor prognostic factors. Advanced-stage disease and high-grade carcinoma are high-risk factors for BMs from EC, and multiple metastases and extracranial metastases, or unimodal therapies, are possibly factors indicating poor prognosis. There is no “most effective” therapy that has gained consensus for the treatment of BMs. Treatment decisions are based on clinical status, number of the metastases, tumor size, and metastases at distant organs. Surgical resection followed by adjuvant radiotherapy appears to be the best treatment approach to date. Stereotactic ablative radiation therapy has been increasingly associated with good outcomes in preserving cognitive functions. Despite treatment, patients died within 1 year after the BM diagnosis. BMs from uterine cancer remain quite rare, and the current evidence is limited; thus, further studies are needed.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Apsci Archives > Medical Science
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email support@apsciarchives.com
Date Deposited: 19 Jan 2023 10:48
Last Modified: 03 Jan 2024 06:49
URI: http://eprints.go2submission.com/id/eprint/208

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