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ArticleCureus2022

Aggressive Stereotactic Radiosurgery Coupled With Immune and Targeted Therapy for Recurrent Melanoma Brain Metastases: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Zhishuo Wei, Kaitlin Waite, Hansen Deng, Yana Najjar, Ajay Niranjan, L Dade Lunsford

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Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 51% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Predicting time to local failure after gamma knife radiosurgery for melanoma brain metastases using survival machine learning.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhishuo WeiDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
Kaitlin WaiteDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
Hansen DengDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
Yana NajjarDepartment of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
Ajay NiranjanDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
L Dade LunsfordDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
Neurological Surgery · USUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melanoma is a complex disease with a high propensity for brain metastatic spread. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a minimally invasive procedure to treat intracranial metastasis with a high rate of local tumor control. In this report, we describe the ongoing management of a patient with interval development of both new and recurrent brain metastases that required seven SRS procedures for a total of 48 brain metastases during a two-year interval while receiving concurrent immunotherapy with ipilimumab and nivolumab. The most recent imaging of the patient showed three brain areas of likely tumor progression despite maintenance nivolumab, and the treatment was recently changed to encorafenib and binimetinib. Combined management with immunotherapy, initial craniotomy, and repeated SRS for new brain metastases resulted in extended survival while preserving neurological function and reducing adverse treatment effects in a patient with advanced metastatic brain melanoma.

Indexed as

brain tumors (primary or brain metastasis). neurologic complication of cancer or immunotherapy (cart)cancer immunotherapymalignant melanoma metastasisstereotactic radiosurgery srswhole brain radiation

Identifiers

PMID35936134
PMCPMC9348438
OpenAlexW4283796673

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