Peer-reviewed journal article

Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) during surgical resection of glioblastoma

An international pooled analysis of 51 patients

26 June 2020 · 8 min read

Author Gustavo R. Sarria, MD Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany

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A brief overview of an international pooled analysis created by Gustavo R. Sarria, MD, on behalf of ZEISS, March 2020.

Original title:

Intraoperative radiotherapy for glioblastoma: an international pooled analysis

Authors:

Gustavo R. Sarria, Elena Sperk, Xiaodi Han, Gustavo J. Sarria, Frederik Wenz, Stefanie Brehmer, Bing Fu, Siming Min, Hongjun Zhang, Shusen Qin, Xiaoguang Qiu, Daniel Hänggi, Yasser Abo-Madyan, David Martinez, Carla Cabrera, Frank A. Giordano

Source:

Sarria GR, Sperk E, Han X, et al. Intraoperative radiotherapy for glioblastoma: an international pooled analysis. Radiother Oncol. 2020;142:162-167. doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2019.09.023

Local tumor re-growth after surgery is the mostly observed reason for Glioblastoma treatment failures.
Giving a high intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) dose during surgery may lead to a prolonged local control rate and survival.
For this retrospective study, 51 Glioblastoma patients with a median age of 55 were included from five different centers in Peru, China and Germany. Following surgical resection, all patients received IORT with a dose range of 10-40 Gy followed by standard adjuvant radio-chemotherapy and standard chemotherapy.