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How do you manage TTFields for a patient with glioblastoma in the setting of disease progression?

Do you routinely discontinue the device or continue if they are otherwise tolerating the treatment well?
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When managing a patient with progressive glioblastoma on TTF therapy, do you:

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Neurology · Wake Forest School of Medicine
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Continuation of Tumor Treating Field (TTF) therapy at progression is an individualized decision for each patient.

In the EF-14 trial upon which TTF was approved for newly diagnosed GBM after chemoradiotherapy, TTF was able to be continued until second progression. In this study, 18% more patients wer...

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