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Glioblastoma in patients over 70 years of age Cover

Glioblastoma in patients over 70 years of age

Open Access
|Feb 2018

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

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).

Figure 3

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.

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
Language: English
Page range: 167 - 172
Submitted on: Nov 11, 2017
Accepted on: Nov 18, 2017
Published on: Feb 25, 2018
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

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