“…A study conducted by Vuong et al [196] found males had a higher prevalence of brain metastasis than females (p<0.001), but the frequency of brain metastasis in a study conducted by Pickren et al [131] was not different (8.8% in men and 8.7% in women). Race has not been associated with brain metastasis [131] and was not included as a covariate in the majority of studies [8,9,185,187,[189][190][191][192][193][194][195][197][198][199][200][201][202][203][204]. Breast cancer is the most common source of brain metastasis for women [5].…”