Jan Leppert, Claudia Ditz, Maximilian Grohmann, Christian Ziemann, Christina Hillbricht, Larysa Liubich, Maria Vittoria Matone, Dirk Rades, Jan Gliemroth, Anastassia Löser
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Abstract
Background/aim: To investigate the significance of the timing of chemoradiotherapy together with clinical and laboratory features in newly diagnosed glioblastoma.
Patients and methods: Clinical and laboratory parameters of 209 patients with glioblastoma potentially influencing overall (OS) and progression-free (PFS) survival were analyzed in univariable and multivariable models.
Results: On univariable analyses, Karnofsky performance status (p<0.001), recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) class (p<0.001), O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT)-status (p<0.001), extent of resection (p<0.001), radiotherapy dose (p=0.01), and the number of adjuvant temozolomide (TMZ) cycles (p<0.001) were significantly associated with OS. Additionally, MGMT-status (p<0.001), extent of resection (p=0.03), surgical site infections (p=0.02), and the number of adjuvant TMZ cycles (p<0.001) were significantly associated with PFS. Multivariable analysis identified radiotherapy dose as the only independent predictor (p=0.049) of OS. MGMT-status (p=0.02) and the number of adjuvant TMZ cycles (p<0.001) were independent predictors of PFS.
Conclusion: The timing of chemoradiotherapy did not play a prognostic role. For OS, the radiotherapy dose, and for PFS, MGMT-status and the number of adjuvant TMZ cycles were identified as independent prognostic factors.
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