Incidence of brain metastases in a cohort of patients with carcinoma of the breast, colon, kidney, and lung and melanoma

By L. Schouten, J. Rutten, H. Huveneers, A. Twijnstra. Cancer, 2002

1,066 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c018e512e6d6ca1378c68835ba1bc859b5088bf2

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Oncology

1. Wolfgang Löscher

Citations in the corpus

• The Blood-Brain Barrier and Cancer: Transporters, Treatment, and Trojan Horses (2007, background): “Brain metastases occur in a significant percentage of patients with common malignancies, with 5-year cumulative incidence rates of 16% in lung cancer patients, 7% of breast cancer patients, and 5% of patients with colon cancer (1).”
• Brain metastases: epidemiology and pathophysiology (2005, background): “A few recent studies have addressed the incidence of clinically diagnosed brain metastases in large cohorts of patients with cancer (Table 2) [22].”