Clinical outcomes in a large pediatric cohort of patients with ependymoma treated with proton radiotherapy.

Neuro-oncology
Brooke E PattesonTorunn I Yock

Abstract

Treatment for pediatric ependymoma includes surgical resection followed by local radiotherapy (RT). Proton RT (PRT) enables superior sparing of critical structures compared with photons, with potential to reduce late effects. We report mature outcomes, patterns of failure, and predictors of outcomes in patients treated with PRT. One hundred fifty patients (<22 y) with World Health Organization grades II/III ependymoma were treated with PRT between January 2001 and January 2019 at Massachusetts General Hospital. Demographic, tumor, and treatment-related characteristics were analyzed. Event-free survival (EFS), overall survival (OS), and local control (LC) were assessed. Median follow-up was 6.5 years. EFS, OS, and LC for the intracranial cohort (n = 145) at 7 years were 63.4%, 82.6%, and 76.1%. Fifty-one patients recurred: 26 (51.0%) local failures, 19 (37.3%) distant failures, and 6 (11.8%) synchronous failures. One hundred sixteen patients (77.3%) underwent gross total resection (GTR), 5 (3.3%) underwent near total resection (NTR), and 29 (19.3%) underwent subtotal resection (STR). EFS for the intracranial cohort at 7 years for GTR/NTR and STR was 70.3% and 35.2%. With multivariate analysis, the effect of tumor excision persis...Continue Reading

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