Author(s)

Jose Carlos Lynch, Leonardo Welling, Claudia Escosteguy, Alessandra G. L. Pereira, Ricardo Andrade, Celestino Pereira

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Backgrond: To compare the survival of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) patients operated on at public hospital with that of patients operated on at the private hospital. Method: We carried out a retrospective analysis of the patients’ medical records, the surgical reports, and the pre and post-operative images of patients with a histopathological confirmed adult supratentorial glioblastoma multiform (GBM). Sixty-three patients were treated at public hospital and 21 at private hospitals. Results: The present study revealed that the survival of patients treated in private hospitals was statistically superior to that of patients treated in public hospitals (11.9 vs 7.7). Conclusions: Our study advances towards the confirmation of the hypothesis that socioeconomic and educational factors influence the KPS and the performance of RT treatment, with negative effects over the GBM patients’ survival.

Socioeconomic Factors; Glioblastoma; Gliomas; Karnofsky; Radiotherapy

J. Lynch, L. Welling, C. Escosteguy, A. Pereira, R. Andrade and C. Pereira, "Effects of Socioeconomic on Survival for Adult Glioblastoma Multiform Patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1999-2009," Open Journal of Modern Neurosurgery, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2012, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.4236/ojmn.2012.21001.