Brain Metastases in Elderly Patients—The Role of Surgery in the Context of Systemic Treatment

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-448579
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.44857

Proescholdt, Martin ; Jünger, Stephanie T. ; Schödel, Petra ; Schebesch, Karl-Michael ; Doenitz, Christian ; Pukrop, Tobias ; Höhne, Julius ; Schmidt, Nils-Ole

; Kocher, Martin

; Schulz, Holger ; Ruge, Maximilian ; König, Kevin ; Goldbrunner, Roland ; Grau, Stefan

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Abstract

In patients with brain metastases (BM), advanced age is considered a negative prognostic factor. To address the potential reasons for that, we assessed 807 patients who had undergone BM resection; 315 patients aged at least 65 years (group A) were compared with 492 younger patients (group B). We analyzed the impact of the pre- and postoperative Karnofsky performance status (KPS), postoperative ...