Prognostic value of detecting recurrent glioblastoma multiforme in surgical specimens from patients after radiotherapy: should pathology evaluation alter treatment decisions?

Human Pathology
Tarik TihanSusan Chang

Abstract

The prognostic significance of the histologic type and grade of gliomas at initial surgery is well established, but the value of histologic findings in resections after radiotherapy is unclear. Despite this uncertainty, pathologic interpretation of specimens after radiotherapy influences immediate treatment decisions. It is important to determine if, and to what extent, treatment decisions should be based on this information. We aimed to determine the prognostic value of pathologic evaluation in postradiation specimens from 54 patients with similar clinical features who underwent a second surgery for the treatment of radiologic worsening after external beam radiotherapy. We categorized the specimens from the second surgery as either recurrent tumor (category 1) or radionecrosis (category 2). Patients in category 1 had actively proliferating neoplasms with classical features of glioblastoma, whereas patients in category 2 had no evidence of tumor in their surgical specimens. Cases in which a clear-cut definition could not be made were labeled indeterminate (category 3). Despite the morphological evidence of tumor, there were no significant differences between categories 1 and 2 in any of the survival parameters tested. The only ...Continue Reading

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