Lung cancer sometimes spreads to the brain. This is called a metastasis. Treating brain tumors from lung cancer often involves a combination of approaches including chemotherapy, targeted drugs, focused or whole brain radiation and/or surgery. “The key is that if we can minimize the side effects of the treatment, that’s our main goal,” says Melanie Hayden Gephart, a brain tumor neurosurgeon at Stanford, “and (to) provide effective treatment of the brain tumor.”
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