Metastatic disease is the leading cause of death in patients with solid cancers. The progression to metastasis is a multistep process that involves detachment of tumor cells from their constraining basement membrane at the primary site, migration and intravasation into the circulation, survival in the circulation, extravasation into the secondary organ, and survival and growth at the secondary site. During these steps, tumor and immune cells interact and influence each other both within the tumor microenvironment and systemically. In particular, myeloid cells such as monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, and myeloid-derived suppressor cells (myeloid regulatory cells) have been shown to play important roles in the metastatic process. These interactions open new avenues for targeting cancer metastasis, especially given the increasing interest in development of cancer immunotherapies. In this review, we describe the currently reported pathways and mechanisms involved in myeloid cell enhancement of the metastatic cascade.

Brain metastases are associated with poor prognosis irrespective of the primary tumor they originate from. Current treatments for brain metastases are palliative, and patients with symptomatic brain metastasis have a one-year survival of <20%. Lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma have higher incidences of brain metastases compared with other types of cancers. However, it is not very clear why some cancers metastasize to the brain more frequently than others. Studies thus far suggest that brain-specific tropism of certain types of cancers is defined by a winning combination of the following factors: unique genetic subtypes of primary tumors or its subclones enabling detachment, dissemination, blood–brain barrier penetration, plus proliferation and survival in hypoxic low-glucose microenvironment; specific transcriptomic and epigenetic changes of colony-forming metastatic cells, allowing their outgrowth; favorable metastasis-permissive microenvironment of the brain created by interactions of cancer cells and cells in the brain through triggering inflammation, recruiting myeloid-derived suppressor cells, and promoting metabolic adaptation; immunosuppression resulting in the failure of adaptive immune response to recognize or kill cancer cells in the brain. Here, we briefly review recent advances in understanding brain metastasis organotropism and outline directions for future research.

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After endovascular coiling of intracranial aneurysms, round dark parenchymal lesions believed to be particulate metal are sometimes encountered in MR imaging studies of the brain. We used SWI to assess the frequency of such occurrences, in addition to exploring likely causes and clinical implications.

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Accurate differentiation between glioblastoma and solitary brain metastasis is of vital importance clinically. This study aimed to investigate the potential value of the inflow-based vascular-space-occupancy MR imaging technique, which has no need for an exogenous contrast agent, in differentiating glioblastoma and solitary brain metastasis and to compare it with DSC MR imaging.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:

Brain metastases are a common finding on brain MRI. However, the factors that dictate their size and distribution are incompletely understood. Our aim was to discover a statistical model that can account for the size distribution of parenchymal metastases in the brain as measured on contrast-enhanced MR imaging.

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