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. 2015 Mar 23;55(4):286–295. doi: 10.2176/nmc.ra.2014-0348

Table 2.

Overall survival and 5-year OS depending on a Karnofsky performance status score at onset

KPS DA (n = 351) OL + OA (n = 205) AA (n = 487) AO + AOA (n = 227) GBM (n = 1,381)





n OS 5 y-OS n OS 5 y-OS n OS 5 y-OS n OS 5y-OS n OS 5 y-OS
10–60 36 19.0 30.3% 10 NR 70.0% 99 17.0 22.8% 31 102.1 62.4% 506 12.0 5.6%
70 14 86.1 63.6% 8 76 68.6% 72 24 25.1% 14 82.1 72.7% 224 13.1 5.1%
80 51 NR 51.7% 18 NR 72.2% 114 31 35.2% 39 110.1 71.0% 279 15 5.1%
90 100 NR 77.3% 59 NR 92.1% 120 53 48.0% 59 NR 66.9% 266 20 19.3%
100 150 NR 90.2% 110 NR 92.6% 82 NR 61.6% 84 NR 69.1% 106 17 20.9%
90–100 250 NR 85.4% 169 NR 92.4% 202 69 55.0% 133 NR 68.2% 372 19 19.9%

AA: anaplastic astrocytoma, AO: oligodendroglioma, AOA: anaplastic oligoastrocytoma, DA: diffuse astrocytoma, GBM: glioblastoma, KPS: Karnofsky performance status, NR: not reached, OA: oligoastrocytoma, OL: oligodendroglioma, OS: overall survival.