Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults, and over
half of patients with newly diagnosed GBM are over the age of 65. Management of …

Background Frailty is an emerging means of assessing overall health status and guiding
management for geriatric patients. Frailty is associated with outcomes for many surgical …

BACKGROUND: Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor.
Despite current treatment, recurrence is inevitable. There are no clear guidelines for …

Life expectancy continues to rise exponentially. The concept of frailty has emerged as a tool
helping to gauge overall health status and risk of adverse events in aging patients, has …

Objective Patients with glioblastoma (GBM) often undergo surgery to prolong survival.
However, the use of surgery, and more specifically achieving gross total resection (GTR), in …

Aim: The optimal treatment for elderly glioblastoma patients is unclear. We conducted a
retrospective review of the California Cancer Registry to examine treatment patterns and …

Background Our aim was to evaluate the impact of comorbidities, clinical and biological
factors on outcomes in elderly GBM patients treated with surgery followed by concurrent …

OBJECTIVE Advanced age is known to be associated with a poor prognosis after surgical
clipping of unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs). Keyhole clipping techniques have …

Background This study aimed to identify prognostic factors for survival and develop a
prognostic nomogram to predict the survival probability of elderly patients with lower-grade …

Simple Summary Although the incidence of glioblastoma (GB) in people over 65 years is
more than twice as high as in younger people, no standard of care for the treatment of the …