@article{e953a187732d41189908bb0516a8f1ca,
title = "Pro-inflammatory state portends poor outcomes with stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases",
keywords = "Brain metastases, Immune responses, Inflammation, Radiosurgery, SRS",
author = "Narek Shaverdian and Jason Wang and Rebecca Levin-Epstein and Dorthe Schaue and Patrick Kupelian and Percy Lee and Isaac Yang and Tania Kaprealian",
note = "Aim: We determined if pre-treatment systemic inflammation would predict poor outcomes in the setting of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for brain metastases. Patients and Methods: The pretreatment albumin concentration, neutrophil and lymphocyte counts, and the platelet-tolymphocyte ratio (PLR) were evaluated to determine association with intracranial control, local control (LC), initial MRI response (MR), and overall survival (OS) among 70 patients with 152 separate brain metastases treated with SRS alone from 2008-2015.",
year = "2016",
month = oct,
doi = "10.21873/anticanres.11106",
language = "English",
volume = "36",
pages = "5333--5337",
journal = "Anticancer Research",
issn = "0250-7005",
number = "10",
}