Treatment progress of brain metastases from lung cancer

摘要

Objective:Lung cancer is one of malignant tumors with the highest incidence in the world, and 30%-65% of the patients develop brain metastases in the progression of the disease. Brain metastases seriously affect the patient's cognitive function, survival time and quality of life, the prognosis is extremely poor and the natural course of disease is about 1-3 months. The main therapies for brain metastases from NSCLC include surgical resection, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and so on. In recent years, with the improvement of surgical methods, the improvement of radiotherapy technology, the emergence of targeted drugs and the combined use of various treatments, the survival time of patients has been greatly extended, and the quality of life has also been significantly improved. In this paper, the current main treatment strategies for brain metastases are reviewed.