PMID: 25743812Mar 7, 2015Paper

Radiotherapy for brain metastases in southern Thailand: workload, treatment pattern and survival

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention : APJCP
Temsak Phungrassami, Hutcha Sriplung

Abstract

To study the patient load, treatment pattern, survival outcome and its predictors in patients with brain metastases treated by radiotherapy. Data for patients with brain metastases treated by radiotherapy between 2003 and 2007 were collected from medical records, the hospital information system database, and a population-based tumor registry database until death or at least 5 years after treatment and retrospectively reviewed. The number of treatments for brain metastases gradually increased from 48 in 2003 to 107 in 2007, with more than 70% from lung and breast cancers. The majority were treated with whole brain radiation of 30 Gy (3 Gy X 10 fractions) by cobalt-60 machine, using radiation alone. The overall median survival of the 418 patients was 3.9 months. Cohort analysis of relative survival after radiotherapy was as follows: 52% at 3 months, 18% at 1 year and 3% at 5 years in males; and 66% at 3 months, 26% at 1 year and 7% at 5 years in females. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that the patients treated with combined modalities had a better prognosis. Poor prognostic factors included primary cancer from the lung or gastrointestinal tract, emergency or urgent consultation, poor performance status (ECOG 3-4), and a hemog...Continue Reading

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Dec 3, 2015·Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention : APJCP·Yasemin Guzle AdasYildiz Guney

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