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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurooncol. 2016 Mar 31;128(2):313–321. doi: 10.1007/s11060-016-2113-1

Table 2. Clinical Characteristics of Brain Tumor Survivors.

N % pa
Tumor Diagnosis
 Ependymoma 21 47 0.09
 Low Grade Glioma 9 20
 Craniopharyngioma 15 33
Tumor Location
 Infratentorial 20 44 0.46
 Supratentorial 25 56
Pre-CRT Chemotherapy
 No 39 87 <0.01
 Yes 6 13
Extent of Surgical Resectionb
 Biopsy/STR 21 47 0.66
 NTR/GTR 24 53
Hydrocephalus
 No 19 42 0.30
 Yes 26 58
CSF Shunting
 No 27 60 0.18
 Yes 18 40
a

P-value indicates whether group is equally distributed across sub-categories using Chi-square.

b

Biopsy= tumor sampling to establish histologic diagnosis without intent to resect; STR= subtotal resection, incomplete tumor resection with gross residual disease present on post-operative neuroimaging; NTR= near total resection, incomplete tumor resection with minimal residual disease present on post-operative neuroimaging; GTR= gross total resection, resection of tumor without apparent gross residual disease observed by the operating neurosurgeon and confirmed on post-operative neuroimaging