Estimating Survival in Patients With Lung Cancer and Brain Metastases: An Update of the Graded Prognostic Assessment for Lung Cancer Using Molecular Markers (Lung-molGPA)
Sperduto PW, Yang TJ, Beal K, Pan H, Brown PD, Bangdiwala A, Shanley R, Yeh N, Gaspar LE, Braunstein S, Sneed P, Boyle J, Kirkpatrick JP, Mak KS, Shih HA, Engelman A, Roberge D, Arvold ND, Alexander B, Awad MM, Contessa J, Chiang V, Hardie J, Ma D, Lou E, Sperduto W, Mehta MP. Estimating Survival in Patients With Lung Cancer and Brain Metastases: An Update of the Graded Prognostic Assessment for Lung Cancer Using Molecular Markers (Lung-molGPA). JAMA Oncology 2017, 3: 827-831. PMID: 27892978, PMCID: PMC5824323, DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.3834.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDiagnosis-Specific Graded Prognostic AssessmentBrain metastasesGraded Prognostic AssessmentFuture clinical trialsLung cancerLung-molGPAMedian survivalPrognostic factorsHazard ratioClinical trialsMAIN OUTCOMEPrognostic assessmentLung-molGPA scoreOverall median survivalKarnofsky performance statusMultiple Cox regressionSignificant prognostic factorsCell lung cancerRetrospective database analysisCancer-related mortalityLog-rank testHeterogeneous patient populationClinical decision makingExtracranial metastasesOverall survival