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Tumor Treating Fields With Radiation For Glioblastoma: A Narrative Review, Ryan C. Miller, Muneeb Khan Niazi, Olga Russial, Spencer Poiset, Wenyin Shi
Tumor Treating Fields With Radiation For Glioblastoma: A Narrative Review, Ryan C. Miller, Muneeb Khan Niazi, Olga Russial, Spencer Poiset, Wenyin Shi
Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty Papers
Background and objective: With a phase 3 clinical trial (EF-32, ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04471844) currently underway examining the potential benefit of concurrent chemoradiation and tumor treating fields (TTFields) for patients with glioblastoma (GBM), we present the following narrative review to highlight the current evidence that supports this approach. The current management paradigm for GBM includes maximal safe surgical resection followed by concurrent chemoradiation with further temozolomide (TMZ) and TTFields used as maintenance therapy. Despite several treatment advances over the past few decades, the overall prognosis remains poor and new strategies are currently under investigation, including the use of chemoradiation concurrently with …