Table 1.
Patient characteristics.
| Characteristic | TTFields patients N=55 |
Control patients N=54 |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age | |||
| Median (range) | 47.6 (21.9-77.8) | 51.7 (27.0-76.7) | 0.08 |
| Mean, SD | 47.3 ± 11.8 | 51.4 ± 12.2 | 0.08 |
| Female | 20 (36%) | 20 (37%) | |
| Median follow-up (months) | 24.3 (8.0-210) | 23.1 (6.9-172) | 0.44 |
| Resection status | |||
| Gross total | 38 | 43 | |
| Subtotal/partial | 17 | 10 | |
| Biopsy | 0 | 1 | |
| IDH status | |||
| wild type | 23 | 23 | |
| mutated | 4 | 1 | |
| unknown | 28 | 30 | |
| MGMT promotor status | |||
| methylated | 15 | 9 | |
| unmethylated | 7 | 8 | |
| Unknown | 31 | 35 | |
| Resection side | |||
| Left hemisphere | 19 | 23 | |
| Right hemisphere | 36 | 28 | |
| Bilateral | 0 | 3 | |
| Resection region | |||
| Frontal | 12 | 18 | |
| Frontotemporal | 2 | 3 | |
| Frontoparietal | 1 | 2 | |
| Parietal | 11 | 7 | |
| Parieto-occipital | 2 | 5 | |
| Temporal | 17 | 14 | |
| Temporoparietal | 5 | 3 | |
| Temporo-occipital | 0 | 1 | |
| Occipital | 5 | 0 | |
| Midline | 0 | 1 | |
| Karnofsky performance score | |||
| Median | 80 | 80 | |
| Range | 70–100 | 60–100 | |
| 90-100 | 26 | 24 | |
| 80 | 24 | 25 | |
| 70 | 5 | 4 | |
| 60 | 0 | 1 | |
| Postoperative volume in PR | |||
| Median | 1.017 | 0.496 | |
| Mean | 1.841 | 0.657 | |
| SD | 2.669 | 0.507 | |
PR, partial resection.