2021
PET-Based Quantification of Baseline Metabolic Tumor Burden Improves Risk Stratification in High-Risk Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Children's Oncology Group Study
Milgrom S, Kim J, Hoppe B, Pei Q, Wu Y, Lo A, Kessel S, McCarten K, Roberts K, Hodgson D, Schwartz C, Friedman D, Kelly K, Cho S. PET-Based Quantification of Baseline Metabolic Tumor Burden Improves Risk Stratification in High-Risk Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Children's Oncology Group Study. International Journal Of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics 2021, 111: s79-s80. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.07.192.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRapid early respondersSlow early respondersMetabolic tumor volumeTotal lesion glycolysisBaseline metabolic tumor burdenHigh-risk Hodgkin lymphomaBaseline tumor burdenMetabolic tumor burdenTumor burdenIntensive therapyHodgkin's lymphomaPET scansEarly respondersCutoff valueEvent-free survival rateChildren's Oncology Group studyPositron emission tomography scanMaximum standardized uptake valueCycles of chemotherapyInitial disease burdenNodular sclerosis histologyResponse-adapted approachBaseline PET scanKaplan-Meier analysisAge 15.5 years
2016
Postoperative Radiotherapy Patterns of Care and Survival Implications for Medulloblastoma in Young Children
Kann BH, Park HS, Lester-Coll NH, Yeboa DN, Benitez V, Khan AJ, Bindra RS, Marks AM, Roberts KB. Postoperative Radiotherapy Patterns of Care and Survival Implications for Medulloblastoma in Young Children. JAMA Oncology 2016, 2: 1574-1581. PMID: 27491009, DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.2547.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPostoperative radiotherapyOverall survivalMultivariable logistic regressionNational Cancer Data BaseLogistic regressionAdjuvant chemotherapy strategyLow facility volumeNational treatment patternsMultivariable Cox regressionLong-term morbidityYear of diagnosisDay of surgeryKaplan-Meier analysisNational database analysisPoor overall survivalLog-rank testYoung childrenAge 3Adjuvant chemotherapyRadiotherapy patternsRadiotherapy utilizationWorse survivalDistant metastasisMultivariable analysisTreatment patterns