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ArticleCureus2021

Twenty Years After Glioblastoma Multiforme Diagnosis: A Case of Long-Term Survival.

Omar Rabab'h, Ali Al-Ramadan, Jawad Shah, Hugo Lopez-Negrete, Abeer Gharaibeh

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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. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Omar Rabab'hResearch, Insight Research Institute, Flint, USA.
Ali Al-RamadanNeurology, Insight Research Institute, Flint, USA.
Jawad ShahNeurosurgery, Insight Research Institute, Insight Institute of Neurosurgery & Neuroscience, Flint, USA.
Hugo Lopez-NegreteNeurosurgery, Hurley Medical Center, Flint, USA.
Abeer GharaibehNeurosurgery, Insight Research Institute, Insight Institute of Neurosurgery & Neuroscience, Flint, USA.
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition · USMichigan State University · USUniversity of Michigan–Flint · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive tumor that has a poor prognosis with a median survival of 15 months with treatment and 3-4 months without treatment. Subsets of patients are found to survive longer than two years, some survivors lived more than 10 years, and rare cases survived 20 years or more with treatment. Better prognosis has been found to be associated with many factors. Some of these factors are related to patients' characteristics, biological factors that impact tumor aggressiveness, and/or factors associated with treatment. However, the exact contribution for extended survival is still not known. Finding the factors that have a strong impact on the long survival is of high importance and can help give hope to better treat glioblastoma cases. In this report, we present a case of a glioblastoma patient who was diagnosed at the age of 47 years with more than 20-year survival. We further discuss the suggested factors that may have contributed to a better prognosis with a focus on the possible role of varicella-zoster infection in mediating long-term survival.

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glioblastoma multiformeimmune surveillancelong term survivaloncolytic virusesvaricella zoster virus

Identifiers

PMID34345547
PMCPMC8323618
OpenAlexW3176033482

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