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Glioblastoma in patients over 70 years of age

Radiology and Oncology
Volume 52 (2018): Issue 2 (June 2018)
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Open Access
|Feb 2018

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Survival of patients with glioblastoma according to the age below and over 70).
Survival of patients with glioblastoma according to the age below and over 70).

Figure 2

The number of patients older than 70 from 1997 to 2015).
The number of patients older than 70 from 1997 to 2015).

Figure 3

Survival of glioblastoma patients older than 70 according to intent of treatment.
Survival of glioblastoma patients older than 70 according to intent of treatment.

Figure 4

Survival of glioblastoma patients older than 70 according to prognostic recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) classes.
Survival of glioblastoma patients older than 70 according to prognostic recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) classes.

Patients’ and treatment characteristics

Age (median)73 years
  (SD)3.7 years
Gender
  Female99 (47.8%)
  Male108 (52.2%)
Surgery
  No5 (2.5%)
  Biopsy69 (33.3%)
  Reduction96 (46.4%)
  Gross total resection37 (17.9%)
Performance status WHO
  03 (1.5%)
  I53 (25.6%)
  II65 (31.4%)
  III70 (33.8%)
  IV16 (7.7%)
Radiotherapy158 (76.3%)
  > 50 Gy57 (27.5%)
  40-50 Gy33 (15.9%)
  ≤ 40 Gy68 (32.8%)
Temozolomide62 (30.0%)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raon-2018-0010 | Journal eISSN: 1581-3207 | Journal ISSN: 1318-2099
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Language: English
Page range: 167 - 172
Submitted on: Nov 11, 2017
Accepted on: Nov 18, 2017
Published on: Feb 25, 2018
Published by: Association of Radiology and Oncology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 times per year
Keywords:
glioblastoma,
age group over 70 years,
elderly,
prognostic factors,
treatment
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Clinical medicine,
Internal medicine,
Haematology, oncology,
Radiology

© 2018 Uros Smrdel, Marija Skoblar Vidmar, Ales Smrdel, published by Association of Radiology and Oncology
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