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Brain metastases are one of the most common and difficult-to-treat occurrences in metastatic breast cancer. They are found in 10% to 30% of patients. In patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, the rate of brain metastases is even higher up to 50%.
Initial treatments for brain metastases include locally directed therapy with surgical resection, stereotactic radiosurgery, and/or whole-brain radiation therapy. Unfortunately, the rate of intracranial progression with these therapies is high. Even more problematic, most systemic therapies have limited efficacy due to their inability to pass through the blood-brain barrier. As patients live longer, they remain at risk for additional episodes of CNS [central nervous system] progression and/or new CNS metastases, Nancy Lin, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, told
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