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Article: As Nation Focuses on Reforming Healthcare, Neurosurgeons Release the First Evidence-Based, Multidisciplinary Treatment Guidelines for Brain Metastases Patients.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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While the nation is debating how best to reform healthcare, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) announce a new significant tool to improve the quality of care for patients who suffer from brain tumors. The nation's neurosurgeons have released the first national formal evidence-based, multidisciplinary treatment guidelines for patients with brain metastases, which account for nearly 500,000 new cancers annually in the United States. Brain metastases are tumors which travel to the brain from other areas of the body, usually the breast or lung and outnumber all other brain tumors combined by more than four to ...