Surgery for brain metastases - real-world prognostic factors' association with survival.

Rebecca Rootwelt WintherEinar Osland Vik-MoOlav Erich YriNina AassStein KaasaEva SkovlundEirik HelsethMarianne Jensen Hjermstad

Published in: Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) (2021)

Ds-GPA could be calculated in less than half of patients preoperatively and GPA poorly identified patients which had minimal benefit of surgery. Including status of extracranial disease improve prognostication and therefore selection to surgery for brain metastases.

Keyphrases

prognostic factors
brain metastases
minimally invasive
small cell lung cancer
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
coronary artery bypass
acute coronary syndrome
middle cerebral artery