CORRECTION article

Front. Oncol., 12 April 2022

Sec. Neuro-Oncology and Neurosurgical Oncology

Volume 12 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.902929

Corrigendum: Efficacy and Safety of Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) in Elderly Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma: Subgroup Analysis of the Phase 3 EF-14 Clinical Trial

  • 1. Department of Neurosurgery, Tel Aviv Medical Center and Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • 2. Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

  • 3. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, CHUV Lausanne University Hospital & University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • 4. Service de Neurologie 2-Mazarin, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS, UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau, ICM, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires La Pitié Salpêtrière—Charles Foix, Service de Neurologie 2-Mazarin, Paris, France

  • 5. Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

  • 6. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States

In the original article, there was a mistake in Figure 1 as published. An entry was labelled as “No adherence” rather than “Disease progression”. The corrected Figure 1 appears below.

Figure 1

In the original article, there was also a mistake in Table 2 as published. Incorrect data appears for Duration of TTFields therapy, months, median (range) and TTFields daily usage ≥75%, n (%) for TTFields plus TMZ. The corrected Table 2 appears below.

Table 2

CharacteristicsTTFields plus TMZ (n=39)TMZ alone (n=20)P value*
Age, years, median (range)74 (70–83)73 (70–80)0.186
Sex, n (%)0.957
 Male29 (74)15 (75)
 Female10 (26)5 (25)
Corticosteroid therapy, n (%)12 (31)5 (25)0.643
Extent of resection, n (%)0.312
 Biopsy7 (18)1 (5)
 Partial resection13 (33)6 (30)
 Gross total resection19 (49)13 (65)
MGMT tissue available and tested, n (%)0.443
 Methylated16 (46)4 (27)
 Unmethylated15 (43)9 (60)
 Invalid4 (11)2 (13)
IDH1R132H tissue available and tested, n (%)24 (62)10 (50)0.512
 Positive1 (4)0 (0)
 Negative23 (96)10 (100)
EGFR tissue available and tested, n (%)26 (67)10 (50)0.529
 Amplified10 (38)5 (50)
 Not amplified16 (62)5 (50)
Chromosomes 1p and 19q tissue available and tested, n (%)24 (62)10 (50)0.241
 Codeletion0 (0)0 (0)
 Loss 1p only0 (0)0 (0)
 Loss 19q only0 (0)1 (10)
 Retained23 (96)9 (90)
 Invalid1 (4)0 (0)
KPS,a median (range)85 (60–100)90 (70–100)
Time from diagnosis to randomization, months, median (range)3.7 (2.6–5.1)3.9 (2.8–5.4)0.268
Time from last day of radiotherapy to randomization, days, median (range)35 (23–49)42 (29–50)0.016
TMZ cycles until first tumor progression, n, median (range)6 (1–15)6 (1–12)0.441
Time from randomization to TTFields initiation, days,
median (range)
5 (1–13)NA
Duration of TTFields therapy, months, median (range)6.9 (0–40)NANA
TTFields daily usage ≥75%, n (%)19 (41)NANA

Baseline characteristics in TTFields (200 kHz) plus TMZ combination versus TMZ monotherapy groups for patients ≥70 years of age.

EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor gene; IDH1R132H, isocitrate dehydrogenase gene 1 R132H mutation site; KPS, Karnofsky Performance Score; MGMT, O6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase gene; n, number of patients; NA, not applicable; TMZ, temozolomide; TTFields, Tumor Treating Fields.

a

Karnofsky Performance Score is measured from 0 to 100 in 10-point bins. A higher score represents better performance status.

*Chi-squared test for percentage values and T test for means values.

Total percentage sums may not equal 100 or total percent of a patient subpopulation due to rounding to nearest integer.

In the original article, there was a further mistake in Figure 3C as published. There was an error in KPS, median (range) for TTFields (200 kHz) ≥75% Daily Usage. The corrected Figure 3 appears below.

Figure 3

The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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Keywords

elderly patients, newly diagnosed glioblastoma, TTFields, Tumor Treating Fields, phase 3 clinical trial, efficacy and safety, quality-of-life, temozolomide

Citation

Ram Z, Kim C-Y, Hottinger AF, Idbaih A, Nicholas G and Zhu J-J (2022) Corrigendum: Efficacy and Safety of Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) in Elderly Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma: Subgroup Analysis of the Phase 3 EF-14 Clinical Trial. Front. Oncol. 12:902929. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.902929

Received

23 March 2022

Accepted

25 March 2022

Published

12 April 2022

Volume

12 - 2022

Edited and reviewed by

Matthias Preusser, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

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*Correspondence: Zvi Ram,

This article was submitted to Neuro-Oncology and Neurosurgical Oncology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Oncology

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