• Abhishek Chatterjee, Manish Bhadane, Jifmi Jose Manjali, Archya Dasgupta, Sridhar Epari, Ayushi Sahay, Vijay Patil, Aliasgar Moiyadi, Prakash Shetty, and Tejpal Gupta.
• Department of Radiation Oncology, ACTREC/TMH, Tata Memorial Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India.
• World Neurosurg. 2022 May 1; 161: e587-e595.

BackgroundThere is lack of consensus regarding optimal adjuvant therapy in elderly glioblastoma (GBM). We have been treating elderly (≥60 years) GBM patients with normofractionated or hypofractionated radiotherapy (RT) plus temozolomide (TMZ) based on Karnofsky performance status (KPS). Herein we report clinical outcomes in this cohort treated at our institute using this approach.MethodsMedical records of elderly GBM patients (≥60 years) treated between 2013 and 2017 with either normofractionated RT (59.4-60 Gy/30-33 fractions/6-6.5 weeks) or hypofractionated RT (35 Gy/10 fractions/2 weeks) plus TMZ were reviewed retrospectively. Outcomes of interest included progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), and ≥grade 3 myelotoxicity. Time-to-event outcomes were analyzed with Kaplan-Meier methods, compared using log-rank test, and reported as point estimates with 95% confidence interval (CI).ResultsThe normofractionated cohort (n = 126) was characterized by a higher proportion of patients younger than age 65 years, KPS ≥70, methylated O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), and receiving adjuvant TMZ including extended adjuvant TMZ (>6 cycles) compared with the hypofractionated cohort (n = 20), confirming selection bias. At a median follow-up of 13 months, 1-year Kaplan-Meier estimates of PFS and OS were 43% (95% CI: 36%-52%) and 56% (95% CI: 48%-64%), yielding median PFS and OS of 11.0 months and 13.1 months, respectively. Higher KPS, methylated MGMT, normofractionated RT, and extended adjuvant TMZ emerged as favorable prognostic factors. TMZ was well tolerated with a low risk of ≥grade 3 myelotoxicity.ConclusionsOur single-institution clinical audit confirms poor survival in elderly GBM with suboptimal performance status but demonstrates acceptably fair outcomes in patients with preserved KPS comparable with the nonelderly cohort.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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