Long-term outcome of 4,040 children diagnosed with pediatric low-grade gliomas: An analysis of the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1173-1179

  Bandopadhayay, Pratiti ^a,b   Bergthold, Guillaume ^b   London, Wendy B ^a   Goumnerova, Liliana C ^a   Morales La Madrid, Andres ^a   Marcus, Karen J ^c   Guo, Dongjing ^a   Ullrich, Nicole J ^a   Robison, Nathan J ^d   Chi, Susan N ^a   Beroukhim, Rameen ^b   Kieran, Mark W ^a   Manley, Peter E ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcome; Pediatric low grade glioma; SEER

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE GLIOMA; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

OUTCOME; PEDIATRIC LOW-GRADE GLIOMA; SEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84899678794     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.24958     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Rees J, Watt H, Jager HR, et al. Volumes and growth rates of untreated adult low-grade gliomas indicate risk of early malignant transformation. Eur J Radiol 2009; 72:54-64.
2. Youland RS, Brown PD, Giannini C, et al. Adult low-grade glioma: 19-year experience at a single institution. Am J Clin Oncol 2013; 36:612-619.
3. Johnson DR, Brown PD, Galanis E, et al. Pilocytic astrocytoma survival in adults: Analysis of the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program of the National Cancer Institute. J Neurooncol 2012; 108:187-193.
4. Gunny RS, Haywood RD, Phipps KP, et al. Spontaneous regression of residual low-grade cerebellar pilocytic astrocytomas in children. Pediatr Radiol 2005; 35:1086-1091.
5. Rozen WM, Joseph S, Lo PA. Spontaneous regression of low-grade gliomas in pediatric patients without neurofibromatosis. Pediatr Neurosurg 2008; 44:324-328.
6. Perilongo G, Moras P, Carollo C, et al. Spontaneous partial regression of low-grade glioma in children with neurofibromatosis-1: A real possibility. J Child Neurol 1999; 14:352-356.
7. Schmandt SM, Packer RJ, Vezina LG, et al. Spontaneous regression of low-grade astrocytomas in childhood. Pediatr Neurosurg 2000; 32:132-136.
8. Broniscer A, Baker SJ, West AN, et al. Clinical and molecular characteristics of malignant transformation of low-grade glioma in children. J Clin Oncol 2007; 25:682-689.
9. Afra D, Osztie E, Sipos L, et al. Preoperative history and postoperative survival of supratentorial low-grade astrocytomas. Br J Neurosurg 1999; 13:299-305.
10. Parsa CF, Givrad S. Juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas do not undergo spontaneous malignant transformation: Grounds for designation as hamartomas. Br J Ophthalmol 2008; 92:40-46.
11. National Cancer Institute, Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program SEER*Stat database:incidence: SEER 17 Regs research data + hurricane katrina impacted Louisiana cases, Nov 2010 Sub (1973-2008 varying): Linked to County Attributes, DCCPS, Surveillance Research Program, Cancer Statistics Branch. 2011.
12. Pepe MS, Mori M. Kaplan-Meier, marginal or conditional probability curves in summarizing competing risks failure time data? Stat Med 1993; 12:737-751.
13. Rosthoj S, Andersen PK, Abildstrom SZ. SAS macros for estimation of the cumulative incidence functions based on a Cox regression model for competing risks survival data. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2004; 74:69-75.
14. Lebel C, Walker L, Leemans A, et al., Microstructural maturation of the human brain from childhood to adulthood. NeuroImage 2008; 40:1044-1055.
15. Ater JL, Zhou T, Holmes E, et al. Randomized study of two chemotherapy regimens for treatment of low-grade glioma in young children: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol 2012; 30:2641-2647.
16. Gnekow AK, Falkenstein F, von Hornstein S, et al. Long-term follow-up of the multicenter, multidisciplinary treatment study HIT-LGG-1996 for low-grade glioma in children and adolescents of the German Speaking Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology. Neuro Oncol 2012; 14:1265-1284.
17. Keene DL, Johnston DL, Grimard L, et al. Vascular complications of cranial radiation. Childs Nerv Syst 2006; 22:547-555.
18. Campen CJ, Kranick SM, Kasner SE, et al. Cranial irradiation increases risk of stroke in pediatric brain tumor survivors. Stroke 2012; 43:3035-3040.
19. Ellenberg L, Liu Q, Gioia G, et al. Neurocognitive status in long-term survivors of childhood CNS malignancies: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Neuropsychology 2009; 23:705-717.
20. Armstrong GT. Long-term survivors of childhood central nervous system malignancies: The experience of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Eur J Paediatr Neurol 2010; 14:298-303.
21. Galloway TJ, Indelicato DJ, Amdur RJ, et al. Second tumors in pediatric patients treated with radiotherapy to the central nervous system. Am J Clin Oncol 2012; 35:279-283.
22. Müller K, Gnekow A, Falkenstein F, et al. Radiotherapy in pediatric pilocytic astrocytomas. A subgroup analysis within the prospective multicenter study HIT-LGG 1996 by the German Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology (GPOH). Strahlenther Onkol 2013; 189:647-655.
23. Juratli TA, Kirsch M, Robel K, et al. IDH mutations as an early and consistent marker in low-grade astrocytomas WHO grade II and their consecutive secondary high-grade gliomas. J Neurooncol 2012; 108:403-410.
24. Kim YH, Nobusawa S, Mittelbronn M, et al. Molecular classification of low-grade diffuse gliomas. Am J Pathol 2010; 177:2708-2714.
25. MacConaill LE, Campbell CD, Kehoe SM, et al. Profiling critical cancer gene mutations in clinical tumor samples. PLoS ONE 2009; 4:e7887.
26. Lin A, Rodriguez FJ, Karajannis MA, et al. BRAF alterations in primary glial and glioneuronal neoplasms of the central nervous system with identification of 2 novel KIAA1549: BRAF fusion variants. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2012; 71:66-72.
27. Tian Y, Rich BE, Vena N, et al. Detection of KIAA 1549-BRAF fusion transcripts in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded pediatric low-grade gliomas. J Mol Diagn 2011; 13:669-677.
28. Zhang J, Wu G, Miller CP, et al. Whole-genome sequencing identifies genetic alterations in pediatric low-grade gliomas. Nat Genet 2013; 45:602-612.