Radiation Therapy for Surgically Resected Brain Metastasis: What Is Your Approach?

A 70-year-old female patient with a history of locally advanced breast cancer presented with a 2-month duration of persistent gait imbalance. Ten years earlier, she initially received a diagnosis of an invasive ductal carcinoma of the right breast, triple negative, treated with mastectomy and axillary lymph node dissection, followed by adjuvant chemotherapy and postmastectomy radiation therapy. She had been followed up without evidence of disease until the present time. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain demonstrated a lobulated enhancing mass measuring 3.6  × 2.4 × 3.6 cm involving the cerebellar vermis with a mass effect on the pons (Fig. 1).
Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Gray Zone Source Type: research