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4/18/2009

Brain Mets: Standard and Novel Treatments

Speaker: Hope S. Rugo, MD

Learn how some breast cancers travel to areas in the central nervous system (CNS) and about methods to treat them. Dr. Hugo reviews symptoms of and risk factors for brain metastases; scans used to detect them; survival rates, and why they have grown over the past few decades; and treatments like radiation, medicine, surgery and radiosurgery.

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