Neurology Clinic & German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), Heidelberg University Medical Center & DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Neuro Oncol. 2018 Jan 22;20(2):174-183. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/nox133.
Management of glioblastoma in the elderly population is challenging. In the near future, more than half of patients with this tumor will be over the age of 65. Clinicians have been historically reluctant to treat such patients with the same intensity as younger patients. Due to upper age limits or poor accrual of elderly patients in clinical trials, randomized data for this patient population have been relatively sparse until recently. In this review, we will discuss the concept of an elderly patient population, describe evidence for molecular differences in glioblastoma of elderly versus young patients, evaluate recent first-line trials studying glioblastoma in elderly patients, and discuss best therapeutic practices including the value of molecular testing.
老年胶质母细胞瘤的治疗颇具挑战。在不久的将来,超过一半的此类肿瘤患者年龄将超过 65 岁。临床医生在治疗此类患者时,往往不像对待年轻患者那样积极。由于临床试验对老年患者的年龄上限或入组标准较为严格,直到最近,此类患者群体的随机数据才相对较少。在这篇综述中,我们将讨论老年患者群体的概念,描述老年患者与年轻患者胶质母细胞瘤的分子差异证据,评估最近研究老年胶质母细胞瘤的一线治疗试验,并讨论最佳治疗方法,包括分子检测的价值。