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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Oncol. 2023 May;24(5):509–522. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(23)00112-2

Table 1:

Patient and Tumor Characteristics:

Patient Characteristics (at inclusion) n = 17 (%)
Age median (range) 57 years (33-72)
  IQR 52; 63
Male / Female 9 (53%) / 8 (47%)
Race; white / not reported 12 (71%) / 5 (29%)
Ethnicity
  Hispanic 1 (6%)
  Non-hispanic 13 (76%)
  Not reported/refused 3 (18%)
WHO Performance Status; median (range) 1 (0 - 1)
Time since initial diagnosis; median (range) 12 months (7 - 51)
Prior Treatments:
  Radiotherapy 60 Gy 17 (100%)
  Temozolomide 16 (94%)
# of prior lines of treatment
  1 16 (94%)
  2 1 (6%)
Corticosteroid therapy (<6 mg/day) 2 (12%)
Anti-epileptic therapy 12 (71%)
Tumor Characteristics (prior to implant surgery)
Mean largest enhancing tumor diameter (mm) 28.7 (range 20-41)
Tumor location
  Left frontal 1 (6%)
parietal 4 (24%)
temporal 1 (6%)
  Right frontal 4 (24%)
parietal 3 (18%)
temporal 2 (12%)
occipital 2 (12%)
Pathology on resected specimen
  Glioblastoma (IDH wild-type, sequenced) 17 100%
MGMT gene promoter
  methylated/unmethylated 5 / 12 (29 / 71%)
Treatment Characteristics
Number of sonication/chemotherapy cycles 68
Number of patients treated dose levels 1-5 5
Number of patients treated at MTD (dose level 6) 12
  # pts receiving ≥ 5 cycles 6 (50%)

One patient with an MGMT gene promoter unmethylated tumor was treated on a protocol that omitted TMZ in favor of an investigational agent