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This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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International
●Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC): Clinical practice guideline on immunotherapy for the treatment of melanoma (2023)
●International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRS): Technical guidelines for stereotactic radiosurgery – Treatment of small brain metastases (≤1 cm in diameter) (2022)
●ISRS: A critical review and practice guidelines for stereotactic radiosurgery for postoperative metastatic surgical cavities (2021)
●ISRS: Systematic review and practice guideline for stereotactic radiosurgery in the management of limited (1-4) brain metastases (2017)
Canada
●Choosing Wisely Canada: Canadian Association of Medical Oncologists (CAMO), Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology (CARO), Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC), and Canadian Society for Surgical Oncology (CSSO) – Sixteen tests and treatments to question (updated 2024)
United States
●American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO): Clinical practice guideline for radiation therapy for brain metastases (2022)
●American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO): Guideline for the management of advanced human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer and brain metastases, update (2022)
●ASCO-Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO)-ASTRO: Guideline for the treatment for brain metastases (2021)
●SNO and European Association for Neuro-Oncology (EANO): Practice guideline for anticonvulsant prophylaxis in patients with newly diagnosed brain tumors, update (2021)
●Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS): Guidelines for the treatment of adults with metastatic brain tumors (2019)
Europe
●European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EANO)-European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Clinical practice guideline for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up on leptomeningeal metastasis from solid tumours (2023)
●EANO-ESMO: Clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients with brain metastasis from solid tumours (2021)
●Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) and EANO: Practice guideline for anticonvulsant prophylaxis in patients with newly diagnosed brain tumors, update (2021)
●EANO-ESMO: Clinical practice guidelines for prophylaxis, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up on neurological and vascular complications of primary and secondary brain tumours (2020)
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on spinal metastases and metastatic spinal cord compression (2023)
●NICE: Quality standard on spinal metastases and metastatic spinal cord compression (2014, updated 2023)
●NICE: Guideline on brain tumours (primary) and brain metastases in over 16s (2018, updated 2021)
●NICE: Quality standard on brain tumours (primary) and brain metastases in over 16s (2021)
Australia–New Zealand
●Choosing Wisely Australia: Don't routinely add adjuvant whole-brain radiation therapy to stereotactic radiosurgery for limited brain metastases (2021)
●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not perform routine cancer screening, or surveillance for a new primary cancer, in the majority of patients with metastatic disease (2019)
Japan
●[In Japanese] Japan Society for Neuro-Oncology (JSNO) and Japan Neurosurgical Society (JNS): Brain tumor treatment guidelines, 3rd edition (2024)
