Age-old misconceptions could be a blockade in the path of research and treatment for patients with cancer metastases to the brain warns a new study. Douglas Kondziolka of NYU Langone Medical Center in the US and co-authors have identified some issues that may be standing in the way of optimal clinical management for patients with cancer that has spread to the brain from other sites. Brain metastases are a major problem in cancer treatment. 'Especially in this era of increasingly personalised medicine one-size-fits-all thinking is improper especially for a diagnostic entity as wide and varied as brain metastasis' the researchers
