Median (range) | |
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Age | 58 (32–84) |
KPS | 80 (70–100) |
Number of lesions (1-9) | 1 (1–9) |
Number of patients | |
1 | 40 |
2 | 12 |
3 | |
4 | |
5 | |
6 | |
9 | |
Gender (M/F) | 22/47 |
WBRT before SRS | |
Yes | 34 |
No | 35 |
Location of the primary tumour | |
Lung | 23 |
Breast | 20 |
Kidney | |
Skin (melanoma) | |
Colon | |
Unknown primary | |
Uterine corpus | |
Other = One case of each: intestinal sarcoma, thyroid cancer, uterine cervix carcinoma, esophageal, gastric, oral cavity, ovarian, and bladder cancer; F = female; KPS = Karnofsky performance status; M = male; NED = no evidence of disease; SRS = stereotactic radiosurgery; WBRT = whole brain radiotherapy | |
Disease status | |
Stable/NED | 42 |
Progressive | 27 |
Primary tumor controlled | |
Yes | 62 |
No | 7 |
Extracranial metastases | |
Present | 39 |
No | 30 |
Variable | Median (range) | p |
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Total dose in SRS | 18 Gy (5 | = comparison between groups, Mann-Whitney U test; BED10 = biologically effective dose for alpha/ beta =10; HSRT = hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy; SRS – stereotactic radiosurgery |
Total dose in HSRT | 20 Gy (12 | |
Dose per fraction in HSRT | 7.25 Gy (6 | |
BED10 in SRS | 50.4 (7.5 | = comparison between groups, Mann-Whitney U test; BED10 = biologically effective dose for alpha/ beta =10; HSRT = hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy; SRS – stereotactic radiosurgery |
BED10 in HSRT | 35.7 (19.2 | |
Lesion volume | 1.74 cm3 (0.001 | |
Single metastasis | 4.68 cm3 (0.05 | = comparison between groups, Mann-Whitney U test; BED10 = biologically effective dose for alpha/ beta =10; HSRT = hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy; SRS – stereotactic radiosurgery |
Multiple metastases | 0.96 cm3 (0.001 | |
Total tumor volume | 4.9 cm3 (0.05 | |
Single metastasis volume | 4.68 cm3 (0.05 | = comparison between groups, Mann-Whitney U test; BED10 = biologically effective dose for alpha/ beta =10; HSRT = hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy; SRS – stereotactic radiosurgery |
Multiple metastases volume | 4.90 cm3 (0.48 |
p | ||
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Variable | univariate | Multivariate |
Single | ||
Gender | 0.2508 | |
Total dose = above | 0.0886 | |
BED10 = above | 0.7026 | |
BED10 > 59 Gy | ||
Fractionation (SRS vs. HSRT) | 0.1265 | |
Tumor volume¶ | 0.1777 | |
Total tumor volume¶ | 0.8950 | |
Chemotherapy before SRS/HSRT | 0.3785 | |
Chemotherapy after SRS/HSRT | 0.2174 | |
Chemotherapy before and after SRS/HSRT | 0.2606 | |
Time between diagnosis of primary and metastases = above | 0.6551 | |
BED10 per 1 ml tumor volume > median (24.3 Gy) | 0.3709 | |
BED10 per 1 ml tumor volume > 36 Gy | 0.3032 | |
Total dose/ml tumor volume > median (11 Gy) | 0.3882 | |
Extracranial metastases | 0.3130 | |
Control of primary tumor | 0.8681 | |
Extracranial progression = progression of primary tumor or any of extracranial metastases; SRS = stereotactic radiosurgery; HSRT = hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy; BED10, BED2 = biologically effective dose for alpha/beta =10 and 2, respectively; WBRT = whole brain radiotherapy; RPA = recursive partitioning analysis | ||
RPA class | 0.8627 | |
WBRT use | 0.3918 | |
BED2 | 0.8638 |