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ArticleCureus2021

Overall Survival in Patients With Resected Glioblastoma Treated With Adjuvant Therapy: A Retrospective Study in a Public Hospital in Chile.

Evelyn San Martin, Felipe Carvajal, Alexander Cifuentes, Dandaro Dalmazzo, Freddy Alarcon, Ariel Fariña, Loreto Yañez

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Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Evelyn San MartinRadiation Oncology, Servicio de Radioterapia, Hospital Clínico de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, CHL.
Felipe CarvajalRadiation Oncology, Servicio de Radioterapia, Instituto Nacional del Cáncer. Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile, Santiago, CHL.
Alexander CifuentesRadiation Oncology, Servicio de Radioterapia, Instituto Nacional del Cáncer, Santiago, CHL.
Dandaro DalmazzoRadiation Oncology, Servicio de Radioterapia, Instituto Nacional del Cáncer. Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, CHL.
Freddy AlarconRadiation Oncology, Servicio de Radioterapia, Instituto Nacional del Cancer, Santiago, CHL.
Ariel FariñaRadiation Oncology, Servicio de Radioterapia, Fundación Arturo López Pérez, Santiago, CHL.
Loreto YañezRadiotherapy, Servicio de Radioterapia, Fundación Arturo López Pérez, Santiago, CHL.
Fundación Atapuerca · ESRadiation Oncology Institute · USDiego Portales University · CLFundación Arturo López Pérez · CLInstituto Nacional del Cáncer · CL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma (GB) is the most frequent and aggressive primary tumor of the central nervous system (CNS) in adults. Standard treatment is complete tumor resection followed by concomitant radiochemotherapy (RCT) and subsequent adjuvant temozolomide (TMZ). Information about brain tumors statistics in Latin American countries is scarce, so we aimed to measure the overall survival (OS) of patients with resected GB in a single institution in Chile. This is a retrospective report of 67 patients treated between 2012 and 2019 with resected GB and who received adjuvant treatment with radiotherapy (RT) with and without TMZ during 2012-2019 in this center (Chilean NCI). Most of them were men (72%), ages > 50 years old (57%), with Karnofsky performance status (KPS) scale ≥ 70% (94%) and recursive partitioning analysis-IV (RPA-IV) (60%). Some 54% received concomitant TMZ and RT. Median OS was 11.4 months, with 1-, 2-, and 5-year OS of 48%,15%, and 3% respectively.  In conclusion, in patients with GB treated with RCT at the NCI, OS was the same as expected from international articles. Adjuvant RCT therefore is considered the standard of care at NCI.

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adjuvant treatmentchileglioblastomaradiotherapysurvivaltemozolomide

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PMID34155465
PMCPMC8211571
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