Bilateral Wilms Tumors Treated According to the Japan Wilms Tumor Study Group Protocol
Bilateral Wilms Tumors Treated According to the Japan Wilms Tumor Study Group Protocol
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DOI:
10.1002/pbc.24979
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发表时间:
2014-07-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Fukuzawa, Masahiro
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作者:
Oue, Takaharu;Koshinaga, Tsugumichi;Fukuzawa, Masahiro
Background Children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) continue to have poor outcomes, and radiotherapy (RT) is the only temporarily effective treatment. In this retrospective analysis, we studied the effect of time from diagnosis to start of RT on event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) in children with DIPG. Methods Records of children (n = 95) with DIPG treated with RT at a single institution between April 1999 and September 2009 were analyzed. RT was delivered at doses of 54.0-55.8 Gy at 1.8 Gy per fraction, and children were followed prospectively. The effect of gender, race, interruption during treatment course, age at diagnosis, duration of symptoms prior to diagnosis, use of protocol-based chemotherapy, and time from diagnosis to initiation of RT on EFS and OS was assessed by the Cox proportional hazards model. Results Time as a continuous variable from diagnosis to start of RT did not affect outcome. Time dichotomized to