Research Article
The Choice of Local Treatment Modalities for Patients with Brain Metastases from Digestive Cancers
Table 1
Site of primary tumor within gastrointestinal tract.
| | Primary disease site | No. of patients with digestive cancer | No. of patients with brain metastasis (%) | Median brain metastasis-free interval (months) | Median OS from diagnosis of BM (months) | 6-month survival rates from diagnosis of BM (%) | 1-year survival rates from diagnosis of BM (%) |
| | Esophagus | 11789 | 45 (0.38) | 7.95 | 14.09 | 72.5 | 56.1 | | Gastric | 11278 | 44 (0.39) | 9.63 | 10.74 | 60.7 | 45.5 | | Liver | 24566 | 56 (0.23) | 21.44 | 12.78 | 59.8 | 53.0 | | Colorectum | 20624 | 125 (0.61) | 20.93 | 11.60 | 69.2 | 48.1 | | Total | 68257 | 270 (0.40) | 16.66 | 10.25 | 63.2 | 42.4 |
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OS, overall survival; BM, brain metastasis.
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