Novel approaches to treating leptomeningeal metastases

High dose weekly erlotinib achieves therapeutic concentrations in CSF and is effective in leptomeningeal metastases from epidermal growth factor receptor mutant lung cancer

(2010) Jennifer L. Clarke et al.   JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY

CXCR1 and CXCR2 enhances human melanoma tumourigenesis, growth and invasion

(2009) S Singh et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER

Efficacy and safety of liposomal cytarabine in lymphoma patients with central nervous system involvement from lymphoma

(2009) Jose A. Garcia-Marco et al.   CANCER

Multicenter Phase II Study of Lapatinib in Patients with Brain Metastases from HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

(2009) N. U. Lin et al.   CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH

To protect and defend: central nervous system prophylaxis in patients with non-Hodgkinʼs lymphoma

(2009) Hwee Yong Lim et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN ONCOLOGY

First-Line Gefitinib for Patients With Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Harboring Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutations Without Indication for Chemotherapy

(2009) Akira Inoue et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Biomarkers of disease: cerebrospinal fluid vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and stromal cell derived factor (SDF)-1 levels in patients with neoplastic meningitis (NM) due to breast cancer, lung cancer and melanoma

(2009) Morris D. Groves et al.   JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY

Palliative Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt in a Pediatric Patient with Recurrent Metastatic Medulloblastoma

(2009) Deborah Schiff et al.   JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Identification of invasion specific splice variants of the cytoskeletal protein Mena present in mammary tumor cells during invasion in vivo

(2008) Sumanta Goswami et al.   CLINICAL & EXPERIMENTAL METASTASIS

Circulating Tumor Cells and Bone Marrow Micrometastasis

(2008) C. Alix-Panabieres et al.   CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH

Bevacizumab in the Treatment of a Patient with Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma with Brain Metastases

(2008) Achala Bhaskara et al.   Clinical Colorectal Cancer

Neoplastic meningitis

(2008) Marc C. Chamberlain   Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

A Mena Invasion Isoform Potentiates EGF-Induced Carcinoma Cell Invasion and Metastasis

(2008) Ulrike Philippar et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Dramatic response with capecitabine after cranial radiation to the brain parenchymal and leptomeningeal metastases from lung cancer

(2008) Semra Paydas et al.   European Journal of Internal Medicine

Implications of the Cancer Stem-Cell Hypothesis for Breast Cancer Prevention and Therapy

(2008) Madhuri Kakarala et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Natural History of CNS Relapse in Patients With Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: A 20-Year Follow-Up Analysis of SWOG 8516—The Southwest Oncology Group

(2008) Steven H. Bernstein et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Recurrent lymphomatous meningitis treated with intra-CSF rituximab and liposomal ara-C

(2008) Marc C. Chamberlain et al.   JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY

Intrinsic Resistance of Tumorigenic Breast Cancer Cells to Chemotherapy

(2008) X. Li et al.   JNCI-Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Metastatic CNS lymphoma presenting with periventricular dissemination — MRI and neuropathological findings in an autopsy case

(2008) Zen Kobayashi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are effective for leptomeningeal metastasis from non-small cell lung cancer patients with sensitive EGFR mutation or other predictive factors of good response for EGFR TKI

(2008) Hyeon Gyu Yi et al.   LUNG CANCER

Successful treatment of leptomeningeal metastases from breast cancer using the combination of trastuzumab and capecitabine: a case report

(2008) Takashi Shigekawa et al.   Breast Cancer

Drug Insight: intracellular inhibitors of HER2—clinical development of lapatinib in breast cancer

(2008) David A Cameron et al.   Nature clinical practice. Oncology

Leptomeningeal dissemination of ovarian carcinoma through a ventriculoperitoneal shunt

(2007) Yesim Eralp et al.   GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY