Abstract
From January 1983 to March 1984, eight patients with high-grade astrocytoma received postoperative irradiation concomitantly with triiodothyronine at the Radiation Therapy Department of the I. González Martínez Oncologic Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There were no complications related to treatment. One patient is alive without evidence of disease at 39 months and seven patients died with disease, one of whom lived for 3 yr. The survival curve for these patients is similar to the survival curve of 18 patients treated at the University of Chicago by surgery, radiation, and triiodothyronine. The value of triiodothyronine as an adjuvant in the treatment of high grade astrocytoma should be further investigated.
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