title: [Retrospective analysis of prognostic factors for survival and intracranial control in postoperative radiotherapy for metastatic brain tumor: examination of localized field irradiation].
abstract: To analyze the prognostic factors for postoperative radiotherapy of metastatic brain tumors, we retrospectively analyzed the clinical records of 127 cases that received more than 30 Gy of postoperative radiotherapy. The overall one-year survival rate (SR) was 48.2%, while the intracranial control rate (ICR) was 51.7%. Univariate analysis (UVA) revealed that female sex (p = 0.02), higher radiation dose (p = 0.05), and late onset (p = 0.05) were significantly favorable factors of SR. With multivariate analysis (MVA), the approving factors were higher radiation dose (p = 0.02), small number of metastases (p = 0.004), lesser extracranial metastasis (p = 0.02), and female sex (p = 0.02). In MVA, greater radiation dose (p = 0.004), lung cancer (p = 0.02), and late onset (p = 0.05) were found to be significantly good factors for ICR. Our unique method of localized field radiation as applied to well-resected and solitary metastatic tumors, was significantly correlated with better SR in this study. As long as patients are carefully selected, this technique is though to be useful for both the reduction of late complications and dose escalation in postoperative radiotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kodaira
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Karasawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shitara
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies