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Bevacizumab Plus Radiosurgery for Nonsquamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases: Safe
Julien Guinde1, Romain Carron2, Pascale Tomasini1
1Department of Multidisciplinary Oncology and Therapeutic Innovations, Aix Marseille University, Public Hospital, Marseille, France.
Introduction:
In the context of bronchial cancers, the brain is one of the most frequent sites for metastases. Local treatments of these metastases have evolved and are often combined to obtain greater efficiency, while the main objective remains to reduce the symptoms. Radiosurgery is currently used as a primary option for patients harboring few numbers of small to middle-sized brain metastases. In nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), chemotherapy is often associated with bevacizumab. Our goal was to assess the safety of this early combination.
Clinical Practice Points:
Six patients with advanced nonsquamous NSCLC were treated with radiosurgery for the management of their brain metastases (n = 40), followed within <4 weeks by a treatment with bevacizumab. No systemic or cerebral adverse event of grade 3 (intratumoral or parenchymal hemorrhage) or unexpected toxicity secondary to bevacizumab has been indexed.
Conclusion:
Radiosurgery may be safely combined with bevacizumab quite early on for patients with nonsquamous NSCLC with brain metastases.
