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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurooncol. 2011 Aug 20;106(2):391–397. doi: 10.1007/s11060-011-0677-3

Table 1.

Treatment N - response PR P - PR N-EFS mEFS P-EFS gain
all 58 7 61 0.172
XRT-Primary 7 4 0.002 7 0.326 0.017
XRT-MET 2 0 0.775 2 0.036 0.099
Bevacizumab 12 2 0.438 13 0.172 0.374
Irinotecan 13 2 0.486 13 0.172 0.985
Valproic acid 11 2 0.388 13 0.156 0.984
Nimotuzumab 13 1 0.517 13 0.186 0.494
Oral Etoposide 10 1 0.662 12 0.151 0.706
IV etoposide 2 1 0.225 2 0.326 0.046
Temozolomide 8 1 0.661 8 0.255 0.037
Cetuximab 5 1 0.481 5 0.211 0.693
Rapamycin 3 1 0.32 3 0.096 0.668
CCNU 2 0 0.775 2 0.096 0.633
Cis-retinoic acid 2 0 0.775 2 0.033 0.056
Cereport 2 0 0.775 2 0.151 0.633
Carboplatin 2 0 0.775 2 0.151 0.633
Vincristine 2 0 0.775 2 0.364 0.042
Temsirolimus 2 0 0.775 2 0.214 0.627
Cisplatin 2 1 0.225 2 0.326 0.046

Responses and median progression free survival of patients treated for recurrent diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma with various treatment combinations. There were no CRs. The number of patients evaluable for response (n-Response) and the number of partial responses (PR) are shown in the first two columns follows by the P-values of Chi square tests comparing those responses to those of patients receiving other recurrence treatments. No P-value was defined as significant as this is only an observational study. The number of patients included in the event free survival calculation (n-EFS), the median EFS as Kaplan Meier Estimate, are shown in the next two columns. The last column shows the P-value of a Kruskal Wallis test comparing EFS gain of patients treated with the drug to those treated with other drugs as a measure if improved EFS is a relevant finding.