Delay in starting radiotherapy due to neoadjuvant therapy does not worsen survival in unresected glioblastoma patients

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Autores de IIS La Fe

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  • Balana, C
  • Estival, A
  • Teruel, I
  • Hardy-Werbin, M
  • Sepulveda, J
  • Pineda, E
  • Martinez-Garcia, M
  • Gallego, O
  • Luque, R
  • Gil-Gil, M
  • Mesia, C
  • Del Barco, S
  • Herrero, A
  • Berrocal, A
  • Perez-Segura, P
  • De las Penas, R
  • Marruecos, J
  • Fuentes, R
  • Velarde, JM
  • Cardona, A
  • Verger, E
  • Panciroli, C
  • Villa, S

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Abstract

PurposeWe retrospectively examined the potential effect on overall survival (OS) of delaying radiotherapy to administer neoadjuvant therapy in unresected glioblastoma patients.Patients and methodsWe compared OS in 119 patients receiving neoadjuvant therapy followed by standard treatment (NA group) and 96 patients receiving standard treatment without neoadjuvant therapy (NoNA group). The MaxStat package of R identified the optimal cut-off point for waiting time to radiotherapy.ResultsOS was similar in the NA and NoNA groups. Median waiting time to radiotherapy after surgery was 13weeks for the NA group and 4.2weeks for the NoNA group. The longest OS was attained by patients who started radiotherapy after 12weeks and the shortest by patients who started radiotherapy within 4weeks (12.3 vs 6.6months) (P=0.05). OS was 6.6months for patients who started radiotherapy before the optimal cutoff of 6.43weeks and 19.1months for those who started after this time (P=0.005). Patients who completed radiotherapy had longer OS than those who did not, in all 215 patients and in the NA and NoNA groups (P=0.000). In several multivariate analyses, completing radiotherapy was a universally favorable prognostic factor, while neoadjuvant therapy was never identified as a negative prognostic factor.ConclusionIn our series of unresected patients receiving neoadjuvant treatment, in spite of the delay in starting radiotherapy, OS was not inferior to that of a similar group of patients with no delay in starting radiotherapy.

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ISSN/ISSNe:
1699-048X, 1699-3055

Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico  SPRINGER-VERLAG ITALIA SRL

Tipo:
Article
Páginas:
1529-1537
Factor de Impacto:
0,883 SCImago
Cuartil:
Q1 SCImago

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Keywords

  • Glioblastoma; Neoadjuvant; Unresected; Radiotherapy delay; MGMT; Prognosis; Glioblastoma; Neoadjuvant therapy; Waiting time to radiotherapy; Overall survival

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