Assertion: melanoma | /r/CapableOf | spread to the brain
Facets:
value: most commonly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Radiation therapy is most commonly used to help control melanoma that has spread to the brain, bones, and other parts of the body.
text: When melanoma spreads, it most commonly spreads to the liver, lungs, bones and brain, making treatment more difficult.
text: Former President Jimmy Carter credits one of these drugs for making the melanoma that had spread to his liver and his brain seem to vanish.
text: If melanoma spreads to the brain, radiation is used to slow the growth and control symptoms.
text: T-VEC has not been shown to improve overall survival or to shrink metastatic melanoma (melanoma that has spread to the brain, bone, liver, lungs or other organs).
text: When it spreads to an internal organ, such as the brain, a patient has advanced or metastatic (met-ah-stat-ic) cancer.
text: What symptoms develop when melanoma spreads to the brain?
text: When melanoma spreads to the brain and symptoms occur, they may include:
text: How is melanoma treated when it spreads to the brain?
text: When melanoma spreads to the brain, the treatment plan may include:
text: Although it is not as common as BCC and SCC, melanoma is considered the most serious type of skin cancer because it is more likely to spread to other parts of the body, such as the lungs, liver, brain and bones.