I want to add to this, that in my consultation process for stereotatic surgery for brain mets, I've been told BC brain mets responds better to the procedures than brain lesions of other origins. They don't know why.
Age, if the lesions are less than 3 cm, and if there are less than 4 lesions all have an impact on final results as well.
The patient that does the best with Gamma Knife, X-knife, Cyber-Knife is the BC mets patient, with either no disease or controlled disease elsewhere in the body, few other health problems, high functioning physically, 4 lesions or less, and lesions 3 cm or less.
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