malignant glioma
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Introduction
Management
- external beam radiation therapy
- may be small benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy[2]
Notes
- gliomas are relatively resistant to chemotherapy & radiation
More general terms
More specific terms
- anaplastic astrocytoma (grade 3)
- anaplastic ependymoma
- anaplastic oligodendroglioma
- glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) or astrocytoma grade IV
References
- ↑ Radiotherapy for newly diagnosed malignant glioma in adults Program in Evidence-Based Care (PEBC) http://www.cancercare.on.ca/pdf/pebc9-3f.pdf
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Glioma Meta-Analysis Trialists (GMT) Group. Chemotherapy for high-grade glioma. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2002;(4):CD003913. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12519620
- ↑ Laws ER, Parney IF, Huang W, Anderson F et al Survival following surgery and prognostic factors for recently diagnosed malignant glioma: data from the Glioma Outcomes Project. J Neurosurg. 2003 Sep;99(3):467-73 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1295943
- ↑ Stupp R, Hegi ME, Gilbert MR, Chakravarti A. Chemoradiotherapy in malignant glioma: standard of care and future directions. J Clin Oncol. 2007 Sep 10;25(26):4127-36. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17827463