Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports (Jun 2019)

Long-term Survival in a Case of Renal Cell Carcinoma With Brain Metastases: A Case Report

  • Ginil Kumar Pooleri,
  • Jeeva Maria Kleetus,
  • Abhishek Laddha,
  • Appu Thomas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1179547619854703
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12

Abstract

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Renal cell carcinoma with brain metastases is considered to have a poor prognosis. We are reporting a case of a 63-year-old male who showed excellent long term remission with a combination treatment of radiation and tyrosine kinase inhibitor for a solitary lesion in the brain, secondary to the renal tumor.