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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 25.
Published in final edited form as: Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2016 Feb 9;16(3):347–358. doi: 10.1586/14737140.2016.1143364

Table 1.

Contemporary series of radiosurgery alone in single (SRS) or fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT) for recurrent high-grade gliomas.

Author Year N Median target volume (ml) Median fraction number, prescription dose Median OS after re-RT (months) Toxicity
Eliott et al. [35]. 2011 26 1.22 1 fx, 15 Gy 13.5 RN 7.7 %; RTOG Grade4 3.8 %
Maranzano et al. [36]. 2011 SRS 13
FSRT 9
SRS 5.3
FSRT 44
SRS 17 Gy
FSRT 10 fx, 30 Gy
11 RN 23 %
Conti et al. [34] 2012 11 N/A 2 fx, 20 Gy or 3–5 fx, 24–25 Gy 7 Corticosteroid dependency 63 %
Skeie et al. [37] 2012 51 N/A 1 fx, 12.2 Gy 12 Complications 9.8 %
Koga et al. [38] 2012 9 (Group A); 9 (Group B) 15 (A); 13 (B) 1 fx, 20 Gy (A); 1fx, 20 Gy (margin dose) (B) 10.5 (A); 9 (B) RN 6.5% (A); RN 29% (B)
McKenzie et al. [39] 2012 35 8.54 5 fx, 30 Gy 8.6 RTOG (G3–G4) 9 %
Martínez-Carrillo et al. [40] 2014 87 6 1 fx, 18 Gy 10 NONE
Anand et al. [41] 2014 16 NA 5–6 fx, 30 Gy 9.3 RTOG > G1 6.2 %
Pinzi et al. [25] 2015 SRS 42
FSRT 67
SRS 2
FSRT 11
SRS 15 Gy
FSRT 3 fx, 23 Gy
11.5 RN 6%

mOS: median overall survival, ReRT: Re-irradiation, SRS: radiosurgery, FSRT: fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (multisession radiosurgery), RTOG: radiation therapy oncology group, G: toxicity grade, N/A: not available, BN: brain necrosis, fx: fraction(s).