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Predicting Survival with Brain Metastases in the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Era: are Existing Prognostic Scores Still Relevant? Or Can we do Better?

Fittall, MW; Brewer, M; de Boisanger, J; Kviat, L; Babiker, A; Taylor, H; Saran, F; ... Rosenfelder, N; + view all (2024) Predicting Survival with Brain Metastases in the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Era: are Existing Prognostic Scores Still Relevant? Or Can we do Better? Clinical Oncology 10.1016/j.clon.2024.01.037. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Predicting survival is essential to tailoring treatment for patients diagnosed with brain metastases. We have evaluated the performance of widely used, validated prognostic scoring systems (Graded Prognostic Assessment and diagnosis-specific Graded Prognostic Assessment) in over 1000 'real-world' patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery to the brain, selected according to National Health Service commissioning criteria. Survival outcomes from our dataset were consistent with those predicted by the prognostic systems, but with certain cancer subtypes showing a significantly better survival than predicted. Although performance status remains the simplest tool for prediction, total brain tumour volume emerges as an independent prognostic factor, and a new, improved, prognostic scoring system incorporating this has been developed.

Type: Article
Title: Predicting Survival with Brain Metastases in the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Era: are Existing Prognostic Scores Still Relevant? Or Can we do Better?
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2024.01.037
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2024.01.037
Language: English
Additional information: Crown Copyright © 2024 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Royal College of Radiologists. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NCND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Keywords: Brain metastases, prognostic score, radiosurgery, stereotactic, survival
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute > Research Department of Oncology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188358
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