title: [Gamma-knife radiosurgery for metastatic brain tumors from primary lung cancer].
abstract: Forty patients with metastatic brain tumors from primary lung cancer underwent radiosurgery (gamma-knife). We retrospectively compared their prior treatment history number of metastatic foci, and performance status, to evaluate the effects of, and indications for, gamma-knife therapy. After both the primary and the metastatic tumors were controlled, performance status could be used as an index in the choice of gamma-knife therapy. Our results demonstrate that repeated gamma-knife radiosurgeries prolonged survival time. Gamma-knife radiosurgery improves quality of life and prognosis of patients with metastatic brain tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Uchiyama
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Saijo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Joukura
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Boku
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujimura
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakai
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ookuda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nukiwa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life; D016634:Radiosurgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome