This study is for patients with brain cancer. The study is being done to see if giving radiation before surgery will improve the length of time without the cancer returning, worsening or causing scarring in the brain.

This study is for men or women who received stereotactic radiosurgery to treat cancer that spread to their brain, and now the cancer has returned in other areas of the brain. This study is being done to see if by adding radiation therapy called whole-brain radiation therapy that avoids the hippocampus to preserver memory plus medication approved to treat dementia can extend these patients lives.