A prospective study of short course radiotherapy in elderly patients with malignant glioma

DB Hoegler, P Davey - Journal of neuro-oncology, 1997 - Springer
… the benefit of standard radical radiotherapy is equivocal. … malignant glioma at our centre is
of age 70 years or greater. A phase II study was undertaken to determine if a shorter course of …

Survival outcomes with short-course radiation therapy in elderly patients with glioblastoma: data from a randomized phase 3 trial

DG de Castro, J Matiello, W Roa, S Ghosh… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
elderly patients with glioblastoma from a randomized phase 3 trial comparing 2 short-course
radiation therapy … Data from another randomized prospective trial comparing older patients (…

Phase II study of short-course radiotherapy plus concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide in elderly patients with glioblastoma

G Minniti, G Lanzetta, C Scaringi, P Caporello… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Future studies are needed to prospectively incorporate the molecular analysis of MGMT to
confirm these findings and identify the subgroup of elderly patients who may respond to more …

A prospective study on glioblastoma in the elderly

AA Brandes, F Vastola, U Basso, F Berti… - … Journal of the …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… In patients with high-grade gliomas, survival always is … study reports findings in elderly
patients with glioblastoma … In our opinion, a short course of accelerated radiation would …

[HTML][HTML] … study of short-course radiotherapy combined with Temozolomide in elderly patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma; Japan clinical oncology group study …

, … Study Group and Radiation Therapy Study Group of the … - BMC cancer, 2021 - Springer
… of this study was to confirm the non-inferiority of radiotherapy … of OS in elderly patients with
newly diagnosed glioblastoma. … several studies have shown that the α/β values of glioma and …

Hypofractionated shortcourse radiotherapy in elderly patients with glioblastoma multiforme: an analysis of the National Cancer Database

KS Mak, A Agarwal, MM Qureshi… - Cancer medicine, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… While prospective studies are likely biased to include healthier … In our study, of the 4,958
elderly patients treated with radiation with or without surgery and chemotherapy between 1998 …

… and effect of short (40 Gy) or standard-course (60 Gy) irradiation plus concomitant temozolomide in elderly patients with glioblastoma: a multicenter retrospective study …

G Lombardi, A Pace, F Pasqualetti, S Rizzato… - Journal of neuro …, 2015 - Springer
radiation therapy in elderly patients with high grade malignant glioma; in addition, these studies
… adjuvant RT (60 Gy) when associated with temozolomide; indeed, the prospective study

Standard (60 Gy) or short-course (40 Gy) irradiation plus concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide for elderly patients with glioblastoma: a propensity-matched …

G Minniti, C Scaringi, G Lanzetta, I Terrenato… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
… Owing to results of the above prospective study, this … in patients receiving standard or
short-course radiation therapy plus … gliomas, median and event-free survival times were 8.6 and …

[HTML][HTML] Short-course radiation plus temozolomide in elderly patients with glioblastoma

JR Perry, N Laperriere, CJ O'Callaghan… - … England Journal of …, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
… adding temozolomide to short-course radiotherapy in elderly patients with glioblastoma and
its … We tested whether a new chemoradiation strategy for elderly patients with glioblastoma

Health-related quality of life in elderly patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma treated with short-course radiation therapy plus concomitant and adjuvant …

G Minniti, C Scaringi, A Baldoni, G Lanzetta… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
… We report the HRQOL of elderly patients with glioblastoma treated with an abbreviated …
Randomized and prospective studies have reported similar survival benefit in elderly patients