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Abstract The most frequent structural neurological complication of systemic cancer is the secondary metastatic deposits in the central nervous system, the most common primaries are from lung, breast and colon carcinomas in contrast to prostate, bladder and ovarian tumours which rarely metastasize. Recently, increased incidence of brain and spinal metastases is due to increased survival, modern diagnostic tools, and therapeutic modalities, and accurate statistics. This work aiming for evaluation of the final outcome, survival. rate, quality of life of patients with brain and spinal metastatic tumours managed by surgery followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy or radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy without surgery due to inoperability. A review of the literature of the metastatic tumours in the central nervous system was summarized. This included the incidence of C.N.S. metastases, sites of metastases and the pathological features of cranial md spinal metastases. The clinical presentations, diagnostic and investigatory procedures, ’es of management (surgical and non-surgical), irradiation, were |