Carcinomatous meningitis in patients with breast cancer. An aggressive disease variant

Abstract

Carcinomatous meningitis from breast carcinoma is an aggressive metastatic complication with a poor prognosis. The authors suggest that patients with a poor KP (< 70) should be treated symptomatically and those with a good KP (> or = 70) should receive more aggressive treatment. The patients' survival in this study compared well with other reports, and yet, only one patient was treated with intraventricular chemotherapy. Therefore, these data question the superiority of intraventricular treatment versus other modalities.