Cancer. It’s a diagnosis no patient wants to hear, and one that no health care professional wants to deliver. Yet the lifetime probability of developing cancer for men is one in two, for women it’s one in three.
Despite the fact that cancer remains the second leading cause of death, the ability to detect cancer sooner and the tools to treat it more aggressively have resulted in an improved prognosis for many patients.
With longer life spans, physicians find cancer may occur in another location of the body, and frequently that location is the brain.
One of the greatest threats of cancer is its ability to spread throughout the body, even after successful treatment of the primary tumor. With longer life spans, more patients must fight cancer in other parts of their body, and an estimated 20-40% of all patients detected with a primary cancer will develop a secondary cancer in the brain.
However, there are many treatment options—including very effective non-invasive treatments—that can help you live with brain mets!
Learn more about brain mets by clicking through on the links in the left column or below.
How cancer spreads
Treatment for brain mets
Questions to ask your doctor
