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Purpose of review As the treatment of many malignancies has improved, brain metastases (BM) have been observed as a site of the first recurrence in patients with controlled systemic cancers. This suggests that while the administered chemotherapy is effective against systemic cancer, drug concentrations in the central nervous system (CNS) are likely too low to be effective. These findings are in accord...