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| Name | What Causes Brain Metastases? Chapter 2 — Brain Metastases: A Documentary |
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| Video Discription | This chapter describes how cancer cells arrive in the brain and turn into brain metastases. Watch the entire documentary from the beginning here: https://youtu.be/ExDfLsUhVyk There are two types of brain cancer. The first is called primary brain cancer, which originates in the brain and is extremely rare. The second and more common is metastatic brain cancer, which originates elsewhere in the body and travels to the brain. Metastases can develop in the brain when these rogue cells cross the blood-brain barrier. Toxins and other harmful substances are usually filtered out by the blood-brain barrier. Cancer, however, has evolved to penetrate that barrier. Some types of cancer are better at crossing the blood-brain barrier than others. These include melanoma, lung cancer, breast cancer, and testicular cancer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video Transcript: David Roberge, MD: There are different kinds of brain tumors. It’s important to discriminate between primary brain cancer, which is a tumor that’s born in the brain, and that’s actually pretty rare. And then there’s metastatic brain cancer, which is five times more common. Part of what makes cancer cancer is that it has the ability to spread throughout the body, so the tumor might start in the breast and it gets to a certain size and it develops some mutations and then a cell will split off, get into the blood, and then stop somewhere in the brain and deposit inside the brain and form other tumors and that would be the process of metastasizing. Orin Bloch, MD: There is a blood-brain barrier and that barrier works very well at keeping toxins and infections and other things floating around through our blood out of the brain. But cancer has developed a mechanism which it can penetrate that barrier and certain cancers in particular are better at penetrating it than others, which is why we tend to see most metastatic tumors from lung cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, and testicular cancer. If you remove one of these metastatic tumors from the brain with surgery and you look at it under a microscope, it looks like the cancer from the original source. So a breast cancer metastasis looks like abnormal breast tissue rather than brain tissue. They are growing into a ball of cells that is the cancer, but they’re not incorporating themselves into the brain. They are unwanted neighbors, if you will. Douglas Kondziolka, MD: Our goal is to find those tumors early because as the tumors get bigger, the success rates drop. Typically with radiosurgery people have quoted success rates at stopping a brain tumor in the range of 85%, so when we say how do we get that to 95%, to 98%, to 99%? It’s with identifying the tumors earlier and that means getting a periodic brain scan to check, because missing a brain tumor, if it grows, can cause neurologic symptoms that we’d like to avoid. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interested in learning more? See our other chapters below that address many questions regarding brain metastases: What are brain metastases? https://youtu.be/eM9VgSGyP4Q What are the possible treatment options for brain metastases? https://youtu.be/XBdIlnSLmh8 What is Whole Brain Radiation Therapy (WBRT) and how is it used to treat brain metastases? https://youtu.be/0ArIPiBMhfc What is stereotactic radiosurgery? https://youtu.be/HZQ8puGlsIw What is the Gamma Knife? https://youtu.be/-VF_vis5Hho What is a linear accelerator and how does it work? https://youtu.be/JKZ314ZjmY0 Frame-based vs. frameless radiosurgery. What’s the difference and how does it impact the patient and treatment? https://youtu.be/kLGlk6tI4BM How does Cyberknife technology treat brain tumors? https://youtu.be/yhFO_uvqO1Q What is a multileaf collimator and what role does it play in shaping radiation for radiosurgery? https://youtu.be/zXM2_BexuK0 What if a patient has more than one brain metastases? How are they treated? https://youtu.be/oDx1ovvhc9M Some radiosurgery treatments can be completed in just one visit. Why are multiple treatments (known as fractions) sometimes necessary? https://youtu.be/1mA7axS1Z5c If it can harm the patient, why is Whole Brain Radiation Therapy (WBRT) still done? https://youtu.be/17thcEIajOU What does “Cancer is being treated as a chronic illness" mean? How do brain metastases patients maintain their quality of life? https://youtu.be/CXVvmYChtEs Why is surgery sometimes necessary to treat brain metastases? https://youtu.be/TJhJQDDVKBU How do I choose the best care team for treating my brain metastases? https://youtu.be/n7NtsxHyUkU What is the future outlook a brain metastases diagnosis? https://youtu.be/OWVJyVP5Qj0 [h8ncJWul5Gw] |
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