Incidence, survival, pathology, and genetics of adult Latino Americans with glioblastoma

• Published in: Journal of neuro-oncology Vol. 132; no. 2; pp. 351 - 358
• Main Authors: Shabihkhani, Maryam, Telesca, Donatello, Movassaghi, Masoud, Naeini, Yalda B., Naeini, Kourosh M., Hojat, Seyed Amin, Gupta, Diviya, Lucey, Gregory M., Ontiveros, Michael, Wang, Michael W., Hanna, Lauren S., Sanchez, Desiree E., Mareninov, Sergey, Khanlou, Negar, Vinters, Harry V., Bergsneider, Marvin, Nghiemphu, Phioanh Leia, Lai, Albert, Liau, Linda M., Cloughesy, Timothy F., Yong, William H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Brain Neoplasms - epidemiology; Brain Neoplasms - genetics; Brain Neoplasms - mortality; Brain Neoplasms - pathology; Clinical Study; Cohort Studies; Datasets as Topic - statistics & numerical data; DNA Modification Methylases - genetics; DNA Modification Methylases - metabolism; DNA Repair Enzymes - genetics; DNA Repair Enzymes - metabolism; Female; Glioblastoma - epidemiology; Glioblastoma - genetics; Glioblastoma - mortality; Glioblastoma - pathology; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Incidence; Isocitrate Dehydrogenase - genetics; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Mutation - genetics; Neurology; Oncology; Survival Analysis; Tumor Suppressor Proteins - genetics; Tumor Suppressor Proteins - metabolism; United States - epidemiology; Giant cell glioblastoma; Ethnicity; Hispanic; Latino; Glioblastoma; Race

Latino Americans are a rapidly growing ethnic group in the United States but studies of glioblastoma in this population are limited. We have evaluated characteristics of 21,184 glioblastoma patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute....