Temozolomide as an alternative to irradiation for elderly patients with newly diagnosed malignant gliomas

2003136 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Michael Glantz · Southwestern Vermont Health Care

Marc C. Chamberlain · University of Southern California

Qin Liu · University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

N. Scott Litofsky · University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Lawrence D. Recht · University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Abstract

The authors concluded that TMZ is as effective as irradiation as a treatment of elderly patients with MG. It is an alternative and, perhaps, a superior therapeutic option to irradiation, based on its ease of administration and low morbidity.

Topics & Keywords

Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Brain Metastases and Treatment Meningioma and schwannoma management

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Cancer

Volume 97, Issue 9, pp. 2262-2266

DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11323

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