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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurooncol. 2018 Jan 13;137(3):583–591. doi: 10.1007/s11060-018-2750-7

Table 1.

Patient and tumor characteristics

N = 13 %
Age (years)
 Median (range) 40 (14–64)
Gender
 Male 9 69
 Female 4 31
Initial surgery
 Biopsy 2 15
 STR 4 31
 GTR 7 54
Initial histology
 Glioblastoma, NOS 3 23
 Glioblastoma, IDH wild type 3 23
 Glioblastoma, IDH mutant 1 8
 Diffuse astrotycoma, IDH mutant 1 8
 Anaplastic astrocytoma, IDH wild type 1 8
 Anaplastic astrocytoma, IDH mutant 2 15
 Anaplastic oligodendroglioma, NOS 1 8
 Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma 1 8
Initial grade
 II 2 15
 III 4 31
 IV 7 54
IDH status
 Mutant 4 31
 Wild type 3 23
 Unknown 6 46
1p/19q status
 Codeleted 1 8
 Single deletion 1 8
 Intact 4 31
 Unknown 7 54
MGMT status
 Methylated 1 8
 Unmethylated 2 15
 Unknown 10 77
Initial chemotherapy
 TMZ 7 54
 TMZ + dasatinib 1 8
 None 5 38
RT delivered
 Yes, initial course 9 69
 Yes, recurrence 2 15
 No 2 15
Initial RT dose (Gy)
 Median (range) 59.4 (54–60)
Time to first recurrence (months)
 Median (range) 25 (6–143)
Time from diagnosis to study enrollment (months)
 Median (range) 30 (10–247)
Number of recurrences
 1 9 69
 2 1 8
 5 2 15
 6 1 8
Prior salvage chemotherapy
 Yes 3 23
 No 10 77
Number of salvage chemotherapy courses
 3 2 67
 4 1 33
Salvage chemotherapy agentsa
 TMZ 5 50
 CCNU 2 20
 PCV 1 10
 Bevacizumab 1 10
Prior salvage surgery
 None 9 69
 1 1 8
 2 0 0
 3 3 23
Type of salvage surgeryb
 Biopsy 1 10
 STR 5 50
 GTR 4 40
Type of study surgery
 Biopsy 2 15
 STR 3 23
 GTR 8 62
Recurrence gradec
 II 1 8
 III 5 38
 IV 7 54
Recurrence histologyd
 Astrocytoma 10 77
 Oligoastrocytoma 3 23
 Oligodendroglioma 0 0

STR subtotal resection, GTR gross total resection, IDH isocitrate dehydrogenase, MGMT O-6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase, TMZ temozolomide, CCNU lomustine, PCV procarbacine, cyclophos-phamide, vincristine, RT radiation therapy

a

Denominator is total number of courses of chemotherapy

b

Denominator is total number of surgeries performed

c

The highest grade tissue obtained at the time of study surgery or during any prior procedure

d

Classified using 2007 WHO criteria. Histologic classification using 2016 WHO criteria was not possible due to a lack of mutation status testing performed on recurrent specimens