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Clinical symptoms and symptomatic management of brain metastases |
Bulletin du Cancer. Volume 98, Number 4, 371-5, Avril 2011, Synthèse
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Author(s) : Ahmed Kallel, Olivier Bailon, Antoine F. Carpentier |
Summary : Cancer patients frequently develop brain metastases. Symptomatic treatments are important to stabilize these patients before an oncological procedure (usually radiotherapy, sometimes surgery or chemotherapy) can be started. These symptomatic treatments mainly rely on steroids to reduce the peritumoral edema\; anti-epileptic drugs for patients who previously had seizures, and low-molecular-weight heparin for patients at risk of thrombo-embolic events. |
Keywords : metastases, brain, cancer, steroids, symptomatic treatment, anti-epileptic drugs |
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