Treatment Advances Give Hope to People with Brain Metastases
Treatment TermsMetastatic Brain and Spine Tumors
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Erin Hull
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Lisa VanTress didn ’t know why she couldn’t regain her land legs after a 13-hour fishing trip in the summer of 2016. When the dizziness caused her to stumble and fall, she went to the emergency room. She soon learned she had lung cancer that had spread to her brain.
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Lisa VanTress
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Peter E. Fecci, MD, PhD
Jeffrey Melson Clarke, MD
Scott R. Floyd, MD, PhD
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