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I asked my onc about brain mets hearing so much about them. What she told me was put very simply.She said that we are getting so much better results at curing systemic disease that we are now seeing more brain mets only because many of the people who get them would have in the past died from the systemic disease before brain mets were discovered. Also chemo and herceptin don't cross the blood brain barrier. The new drug latunib (bad spelling)however does cross.
Alice
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