Radiotherapy-induced glioblastoma: distinct differences in overall survival, tumor location, pMGMT methylation and primary tumor epidemiology in Hong Kong chinese patients.
Br J Neurosurg
; : 1-8, 2021 Feb 12.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Radiotherapy-induced glioblastomas (RIGB) are a well-known late and rare complication of brain irradiation. Yet the clinical, radiological and molecular characteristics of these tumors are not well characterized.METHODS:
This was a retrospective multicentre study that analysed adult patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma over a 10-year period. Patients with RIGB were identified according to Cahan's criteria for radiation-induced tumors. A case-control analysis was performed to compare known prognostic factors for overall survival (OS) with an independent cohort of IDH-1 wildtype de novo glioblastomas treated with standard temozolomide chemoradiotherapy. Survival analysis was performed by Cox proportional hazards regression.RESULTS:
A total of 590 adult patients were diagnosed with glioblastoma. 19 patients (3%) had RIGB. The mean age of patients upon diagnosis was 48 years ± 15. The mean latency duration from radiotherapy to RIGB was 14 years ± 8. The mean total dose was 58Gy ± 10. One-third of patients (37%, 7/19) had nasopharyngeal cancer and a fifth (21%, 4/19) had primary intracranial germinoma. Compared to a cohort of 146 de novo glioblastoma patients, RIGB patients had a shorter median OS of 4.8 months versus 19.2 months (p-value <.001). Over a third of RIGBs involved the cerebellum (37%, 7/19) and was higher than the control group (4%, 6/146; p-value <.001). A fifth of RIGBs (21%, 3/19) were pMGMT methylated which was significantly fewer than the control group (49%, 71/146; p-value .01). For RIGB patients (32%, 6/19) treated with re-irradiation, the one-year survival rate was 67% and only 8% for those without such treatment (p-value .007).CONCLUSION:
The propensity for RIGBs to develop in the cerebellum and to be pMGMT unmethylated may contribute to their poorer prognosis. When possible re-irradiation may offer a survival benefit. Nasopharyngeal cancer and germinomas accounted for the majority of original malignancies reflecting their prevalence among Southern Chinese.
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2021
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