Table 1.

Patient characteristics

Characteristic	Patients (n=25)
Gender
Men	14 (56%)
Women	11 (44%)
Median age (range)	56 (30–80)
Karnofsky performance scale
70–80	13 (52%)
90–100	12 (48%)
Prior low grade glioma	3 (12%)
Histological diagnosis
Glioblastoma	20 (80%)
Anaplastic astrocytoma	4 (16%)
Anaplastic oligodendroglioma	1 (4%)
Median No. of prior recurrences (range)	1 (1 to 4)
Median time from initial malignant glioma diagnosis (range)	14.5 mos (6 to 135)
Median dose of prior radiotherapy (range)	5940 cGy (5400 to 6120)
Median elapsed time between prior radiotherapy and study enrollment (range)	15 mos (2.2 to 292)