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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurooncol. 2022 Nov 23;161(2):297–308. doi: 10.1007/s11060-022-04187-1

Table 2.

All hormone related clinical trials in this review

First author
(year)
Drug Dose Study design Median treatment
duration
(months)
Number
of
patients
Sex Median
age
(years)
Primary outcome
Markwalder (1985) [47] Tamoxifen 10 mg orally t.i.d Prospective cohort; pilot study 12 6 5 F; 1 M 71.5 4 assessed; 1 non-specific response; 2 stable; 1 progressed
Goodwin (1993) [48] Tamoxifen 40 mg b.i.d. for 4 days then 10 mg orally b.i.d Prospective cohort; phase II 31 21 14 F; 7 M 58 1 partial response; 2 minor response; 6 stable; 10 progressed
Grunberg (1990) [50] Megestrol acetate 40–80 mg orally q.i.d Prospective cohort 5 9 5 F; 4 M 40 2 stable; 7 progressed
Grunberg (2006) [51] Mifepristone 14-day course of dexamethasone 1 mg 200 mg q.d. orally Prospective cohort 35 28 19 F; 9 M 56 5 minor response; 3 clinical without radiographic improvement; 2 progressed
Touat (2014) [52] Mifepristone 200 mg q.d. orally Case series 60 3 3 F 54 100% had > 20% volume reduction
Ji (2015) [42] Mifepristone 200 mg b.i.d. or placebo orally Randomized phase III clinical trial Placebo 11[6-18]; mifepristone 10[7–13]+ 164 116 F; 48 M 57 HR 1.02 95%CI[0.72, 1.48] Adjusted P = 0.9

Cohort statistics includes patients that were not included in the trial aggregated by publishing author

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Failure free survival