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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2024 Oct 1;30(19):4424–4433. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-24-1215

Table 1: Distribution of Variables (n=130).

Continuous variables are presented as median (interquartile range) and categorical variables are presented as count (percentage).

Variable Value
Patient-level
Biometric Sex
Male 73 (56%)
Female 57 (44%)

Race
White 120 (92%)
Other 10 (8%)

Comorbidities Hypertension
Yes 37 (28%)
No 93 (72%)

Diabetes
Yes 9 (7%)
No 121 (93%)

Brain characteristics Whole ventricular volume (cc) 27.10 (20.36-37.10)
Tumor-level

Tumor characteristics Type
H&N 60 (46%)
CNS 65 (50%)
BOS 5 (6%)

Location
Extracranial 60 (46%)
Intracranial 70 (54%)

Bilateral radiation target
Yes 33 (25%)
No 97 (75%)

Clinical target volume (cc) 118.16 (60.06-266.49)

Tumor location variables Cerebral lobe at risk
Frontal 54 (42%)
Temporal 54 (42%)
Other 22 (17%)

Distance from maximum dose to ventricles (mm) 62 (37-95)

Maximum dose in white matter
Yes 13 (10%)
No 117 (90%)

Treatment-level
Other therapies Prior surgery
Gross total resection 36 (28%)
Near total resection 18 (14%)
Subtotal resection 38 (29%)
None 38 (29%)

Concurrent chemotherapy
Yes 61 (47%)
No 69 (53%)

Radiotherapy variables Radiotherapy indication
Definitive 77 (59%)
Adjuvant 53 (41%)

Mean brain dose (Gy) 5.4 (3.3-10.6)

Maximum brain dose (Gy) 67.1 (63.5-72.1)

Radiation Necrosis
Overall 50 (38%)
Central Nervous System 19 out of 65
Glioma 14 out of 42
Meningioma 5 out of 19
Ependymomas 0 out of 1
Hemangiopericytomas 0 out of 2
Other 0 out of 1
Head and Neck 30 out of 60
Nasopharyngeal carcinomas 21 out of 47
Salivary gland tumors 6 out of 10
Other 3 out of 3
Base of Skull 1 out of 5
Chordomas 0 out of 5
Chondrosarcomas 1 out of 2
Other 0 out of 1