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. 2011 Sep 20;2011:207103. doi: 10.5402/2011/207103

Table 4.

Average and median survival in patients with brain metastases according to primary tumor histology. Note differences between average and median survival probably due to influencing factors not relating only with histology.

Histology Average survival Median survival
Breast 19.01 10.3

Bowels 11.17 11.0

Kidney 32.9 6.5

Lung-NSCLC 19.75 11.15

Lung-SCLC 10.8 10.25

Melanoma 10.83 8.0

Unknown 11.64 3.6