Table 1.

Characteristics of 70 primary surgical specimens of glioblastoma patients

	Total	MGMT				ALDH1A1
		Methylation		No methylation		≤ 10 %		> 10 %
	no.	no.	%	no.	%	no.	%	no.	%
Patients	70	17	24.3	53	75.7	42	60	28	40
Treatment
standard*	50	13	18.6	37	52.9	33	47.1	17	24.3
others**	20	4	5.7	16	22.9	9	12.9	11	15.7
Sex
men	50	13	18.6	37	52.9	31	44.3	19	27.1
women	20	4	5.7	16	22.9	11	15.7	9	12.9
Age***(years)
≤ 60	28	7	10	21	30	21	30	7	10
61–70	27	6	8.6	21	30	14	20	13	18.6
> 70	15	4	5.7	11	15.7	7	10	8	11.4

*Therapeutic regimen described by Stupp et al.¹

**Resection plus radiotherapy, radiotherapy and concomitant TMZ, or adjuvant TMZ.

***Age of the patients when diagnosed.