Glioblastoma

New glioblastoma research from M. Patel and co-researchers described

Published in Medical Imaging Week, April 18th, 2009

According to recent research from the United States, " To determine the radiographic and clinical efficacy of stereotactic single dose radiosurgery (SRS) and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT) as salvage therapy for glioblastoma (GBM) at recurrence. Thirty-six patients with pathologically proven recurrent GBM were treated with salvage reirradiation by either SRS or FSRT between March of 2001 and August of 2006."

"Thirty-one patients had an initial diagnosis of GBM. Five patients had a malignant transformation. All patients had received radiotherapy with a dose of 50-60 Gy, a median 13.6 months prior to reirradiation (range: 0.8-119 months). At the time of...

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Source: Medical Imaging Week (2009-04-18)

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