Retrospective study of 229 surgically treated patients with brain metastases: Prognostic factors, outcome and comparison of recursive partitioning analysis and diagnosis-specific graded prognostic assessment.

Conclusion: Favorable factors for prolonged survival were KPS >70%, RPA Class I and II, age <65 years, female sex, a DS-GPA Score of 2.5-3 and 3.5-4, and adjuvant radiotherapy. The RPA Classification was more accurate in predicting the outcome than the DS-GPA score. PMID: 29184710 [PubMed]
Source: Surgical Neurology International - Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Surg Neurol Int Source Type: research