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Quantitative Immunohistochemistry of the Cellular Microenvironment in Patient Glioblastoma Resections
Published on: July 31, 2017
Socioeconomic and educational factors interference in the prognosis for glioblastoma multiform
Jose Carlos Lynch1, Leonardo Welling, Claudia Escosteguy
1Servidores do Estado Hospital, Neurosurgery, Rua Jardim Botânico, 600, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. jclynch@globo.com
Background:
To compare the survival of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) patients operated on at public hospital with that of patients operated on at the private hospitals.
Method:
We carried out a retrospective analysis of the patients' medical records, the surgical reports and the pre- and post-operative images of patients with a histopathological confirmed adult supratentorial GBM. Sixty-three patients were treated at public hospital and twenty-one at private hospitals.
Results:
The present study revealed that the survival of patients treated in private hospitals was statistically superior to that of patients treated in public hospitals (11.9 vs. 7.7).
Conclusions:
Our study advances towards the confirmation of the hypothesis that socioeconomic and educational factors influence the Karnofsky Performance Score (KPS) and the performance of radiotherapy treatment, with negative effects over the GBM patients' survival.
