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Table 1 Patients characteristics in our study cohort

From: The frequency and prognostic effect of TERT promoter mutation in diffuse gliomas

Variable

 

Group 1

Oligodendroglioma,

IDH-mutant and 1p19q–codeletion

WHO grade II & III

Group 2

Anaplastic astrocytoma,

IDH-mutant,

WHO grade III

Group 3

Glioblastoma, IDH-mutant,

WHO grade IV

Group 4

Anaplastic astrocytoma,

IDH-wildtype,

WHO grade III

Group 5

Glioblastoma

IDH-wildtype

WHO grade IV

 

No

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Number of Patients

168

65 (100)

23 (100)

13 (100%)

15 (100%)

52 (100%)

Age (years)

Mean (range)

43.4 (21–65)

42.6 (21–65)

39 (29–49)

48.6 (26–72)

55.3 (27–79)

Gender

Male

33 (50.8)

17 (73.9)

9 (69.2)

6 (40)

35 (66.0)

Female

32 (49.2)

6 (26.1)

4 (30.8)

9 (60)

17 (34.0)

Mean OS (mo)

 

38.0 (0–95)

59.4 (0.5–114.8)

40.0 (11.8–72.3)

28.2 (0.5–76.9)

19.6 (0.5–116)

Mean PFS (mo)

 

38.0 (1–96)

48.7 (0.5–114.8)

36.0 (9.5–68.7)

13.8 (0.5–76.9)

15.4 (0–103)

TERT sequencing

Wildtype

2 (3.1)

22 (95.6)

3 (23.1)

12 (80)

11 (21.2)

Mutant

63 (96.9)

1 (4.4)

10 (76.9)

3 (20)

41 78.8)

1p, 19q FISH

No co-deletion

0 (0)

0 (0)

13 (100)

15 (100)

53 (100)

Co-deletion

65 (100)

23 (100)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

ATRX IHC

Wildtype (retained)

Mutant (loss)

0 (0)

65 (100)

7 (30.4)

16 (69.6)

4 (30.7)

9 (69.2)

9 (60)

6 (40)

48 (92.3)

4 (7.7)

MGMT MSP

No methylation

11 (16.9)

9 (39.1)

3 (23.1)

7 (46.7)

26 (50.0)

Methylation

54 (83.1)

14 (60.9)

10 (76.9)

8 (53.3)

26 (50.0)

Ki-67 labeling index (%)

Mean (range)

10.6 (1.5–39.5)

Not available

14 (1–39.3)

Not available

20.6 (0–54.8)

  1. Abbreviations: mo month, OS overall survival, PFS progression free survival, FISH fluorescent in situ hybridization, IHC immunohistochemistry, MSP methylation-specific PCR, HD homozygous deletion, WHO World Health Organization