The study evaluated the survival of 364 glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) patients who received different modalities of treatment in two Canadian tertiary care centres. Retrospective and prospective databases were utilized to do a retrospective population based cohort study.
The thesis question was among treated GBM patients in Edmonton and Halifax; does the survival rate differ with introduction of concomitant temozolomide and radiation therapy (RT) versus non concomitant treatment?
Our results indicate that concomitant temozolomide with radiation therapy and surgery was associated with longer survival in comparison to radiation therapy with surgery. We also found that age; surgical resection and shorter time to radiation therapy are important factors for longer survival. / Clinical epidemiology
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:AEU.10048/1300 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Alnaami, Ibrahim |
| Contributors | Senthilselvan, Ambikaipakan (Public Health Sciences), Mehta, Vivek (Neurosurgery), Gourishankar, Sita (Public Health Sciences), O'Kelly, Cian (Neurosurgery) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 468821 bytes, application/pdf |
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