The introduction of effective systemic chemotherapy has changed the patterns of brain metastases in children. The increasing incidence of these metastases in patients with sarcoma and neuroblastoma suggests that the brain is a pharmacologically protected site in patients initially diagnosed with metastatic disease.
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