Rethinking childhood ependymoma: a retrospective, multi-center analysis reveals poor long-term overall survival

AbstractEpendymoma is the third most common brain tumor in children, but there is a paucity of large studies with more than 10 years of follow-up examining the long-term survival and recurrence patterns of this disease. We conducted a retrospective chart review of 103 pediatric patients with WHO Grades II/III intracranial ependymoma, who were treated at Dana-Farber/Boston Children 's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and Chicago's Ann& Robert H. Lurie Children 's Hospital between 1985 and 2008, and an additional 360 ependymoma patients identified from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database. For the institutional cohort, we evaluated clinical and histopathological prognostic factors of overall survival (OS) and progression-free sur vival (PFS) using the log-...

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