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Patient characteristics at initial diagnosis
| Standard-dose Chemotherapy |
Myeloablative Chemotherapy |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers of patients | 56 | 27 | |
| Characteristics | |||
| Median age in years (range) | 11.1 (0.1–19.3) | 8.5 (0.2–20.9) | .25 |
| Age ≤ 3 years | 7 (12%) | 6 (22%) | .33 |
| Females | 27 (48%) | 12 (44%) | .82 |
| Spinal Cord Primaries | 2 (4%) | 3 (8%) | >0.3 |
| Neuropathology | 0.25 | ||
| Glioblastoma Multiforme | 27 (48%) | 17 (63%) | |
| Anaplastic Astrocytoma | 29 (52%) | 10 (37%) |
