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Prognostic significance of IDH-1 and MGMT in patients with glioblastoma: one step forward, and one step back?
Radiation oncology (London, England) - 13 Sept 2011
Combs Stephanie E, Rieken Stefan, Wick Wolfgang, Abdollahi Amir, von Deimling Andreas, Debus Jürgen, Hartmann Christian
Abstract excerpt
A group of 160 patients with primary glioblastoma treated with radiotherapy and temozolomide was analyzed for the impact of O6-methly-guanly-methyl-transferase (MGMT)-promoter methylation as well as isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH)1-mutational status. Unexpectedly, overall survival or progression-free survival were not longer in the group with methylated MGMT-promoter as compared to patients without that...
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