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Article: First national and evidence-based guidelines for brain cancer released.
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- November 15, 2009
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The first national treatment guidelines for brain metastases, which account for nearly 500,000 new cancers annually in the United States, were released at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in New Orleans.
The guidelines were developed by a 20-member panel in various specialties over the last year after reviewing the literature and reaching a consensus for different treatments. The panel was headed by neurosurgeon Steven Kalkanis, M.D., co-director of the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
"In the last 10 years, there has been an explosion of new treatments for brain metastases: surgical resection, stereotactic ...