2019
Survival and prognostic factors in patients with gastrointestinal cancers and brain metastases: have we made progress?
Sperduto PW, Fang P, Li J, Breen W, Brown PD, Cagney D, Aizer A, Yu J, Chiang V, Jain S, Gaspar LE, Myrehaug S, Sahgal A, Braunstein S, Sneed P, Cameron B, Attia A, Molitoris J, Wu CC, Wang TJC, Lockney N, Beal K, Parkhurst J, Buatti JM, Shanley R, Lou E, Tandberg DD, Kirkpatrick JP, Shi D, Shih HA, Chuong M, Saito H, Aoyama H, Masucci L, Roberge D, Mehta MP. Survival and prognostic factors in patients with gastrointestinal cancers and brain metastases: have we made progress? Translational Research 2019, 208: 63-72. PMID: 30885538, PMCID: PMC6527460, DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2019.02.011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGI cancer patientsBrain metastasesGraded Prognostic AssessmentCancer patientsPrognostic factorsNew brain metastasesLarge contemporary cohortPrognosis of patientsLog-rank testMedian survival estimatesContemporary cohortPrognostic indexClinical parametersGastrointestinal cancerPrimary diagnosisPrognostic assessmentRetrospective IRBPatientsFirst treatmentDemographic dataSurvival estimatesCurrent cohortCohortTreatmentPrognosis
2017
Estimating Survival in Melanoma Patients With Brain Metastases: An Update of the Graded Prognostic Assessment for Melanoma Using Molecular Markers (Melanoma-molGPA)
Sperduto PW, Jiang W, Brown PD, Braunstein S, Sneed P, Wattson DA, Shih HA, Bangdiwala A, Shanley R, Lockney NA, Beal K, Lou E, Amatruda T, Sperduto WA, Kirkpatrick JP, Yeh N, Gaspar LE, Molitoris JK, Masucci L, Roberge D, Yu J, Chiang V, Mehta M. Estimating Survival in Melanoma Patients With Brain Metastases: An Update of the Graded Prognostic Assessment for Melanoma Using Molecular Markers (Melanoma-molGPA). International Journal Of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics 2017, 99: 812-816. PMID: 29063850, PMCID: PMC6925529, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.06.2454.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDiagnosis-Specific Graded Prognostic AssessmentGraded Prognostic AssessmentSignificant prognostic factorsBrain metastasesMelanoma-molGPAPrognostic factorsMelanoma patientsPrognostic assessmentMultiple Cox regressionMedian survival timeRetrospective database analysisLog-rank testHeterogeneous patient populationClinical decision makingTreatment eraHazard ratioMedian survivalMultivariable analysisWorse prognosisCox regressionPatient populationSurvival timePatientsMetastasisCurrent cohort