Successful treatment of a brain-metastasized renal cell carcinoma

Renal cell carcinoma is an uncommon type of cancer that rarely metastasizes to the brain. The prognosis after discovering brain metastasis has traditionally been dismal. We are presenting a case of renal cell carcinoma with multiple brain metastases that was successfully treated with multimodal ther...

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Autores principales: Walid, M. Sami, Johnston, Kim W.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19911072
http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/000087
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description Renal cell carcinoma is an uncommon type of cancer that rarely metastasizes to the brain. The prognosis after discovering brain metastasis has traditionally been dismal. We are presenting a case of renal cell carcinoma with multiple brain metastases that was successfully treated with multimodal therapy including a new type of medication.
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spelling pubmed-27751942009-11-12 Successful treatment of a brain-metastasized renal cell carcinoma Walid, M. Sami Johnston, Kim W. Ger Med Sci Article Renal cell carcinoma is an uncommon type of cancer that rarely metastasizes to the brain. The prognosis after discovering brain metastasis has traditionally been dismal. We are presenting a case of renal cell carcinoma with multiple brain metastases that was successfully treated with multimodal therapy including a new type of medication. German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2009-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2775194/ /pubmed/19911072 http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/000087 Text en Copyright © 2009 Walid et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en). You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work, provided the original author and source are credited.
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