Higher risk for development of brain metastases in long-survivors from colorectal cancer with concomitant lung metastases and KRAS mutations

An Italian study met its primary endpoint of reporting an high incidence of brain metastases in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and concomitant KRAS mutations, lung metastases and a survival time from the first occurrence of metastases ≥ 10 months. The study was presented by Dr Federica Zoratto of the Oncology Department, Santa Maria Goretti Hospital, University of Rome, Latina, Italy at the ESMO 15th World Congress in Gastrointestinal Cancer (3-6 July 2013, Barcelona, Spain). Read more here.