Prognosis in young women less than 40 years of age with brain metastasis from breast cancer.

Conclusions: In our single-centre retrospective cohort of women with brain metastasis from bca, prognosis was better for young women (<40 years) than for older women (≥40 years). Survival was also longer for patients whose initial metastasis was to the brain than for patients whose brain metastasis developed later in the disease course. In patients who received systemic treatment, median survival remained significantly higher in women less than 40 years of age. Further studies are needed to validate those results. PMID: 32218659 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Oncology - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Curr Oncol Source Type: research