paediatrics Brussels 17

Intracranial ependymoma

Adverse prognostic factors 3 yr event-free survival / european data

Subtotal Resection – 53% vs. 83%

p=0.029

Anaplastic Tumor Grade – 50% vs. 94%

p<0.0001

Pre-irradiation Chemotherapy – 54% vs. 86%

p=0.0017

Multivariate Analysis –

Extent of Resection

p=0.018 p=0.0003 p=0.0106

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Tumor Grade

Pre-irradiation Chemoth.