What are other treatments for leptomeningeal carcinomatosis?
What are other treatments for leptomeningeal carcinomatosis?
Healthcare providers may recommend the following treatments for leptomeningeal carcinomatosis:
- Radiation therapy. Radiation therapy uses strong beams of energy to kill cancer cells or keep them from growing.
- Systemic chemotherapy to treat your original tumor.
- Targeted therapy. This treatment involves medications that target specific changes in cancer cells.
- Immunotherapy. This is used if HER-2 breast cancer was your original cancer.