[Comment] 20 years of the Stupp protocol: confronting stagnation in glioblastoma therapy

The Lancet Oncology | |

20 years ago, the combination of radiotherapy with concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide, also known as the Stupp protocol,1 transformed glioblastoma treatment. It was the first multimodal regimen to show a survival advantage in newly diagnosed glioblastoma and is the standard of care two decades later. The trial1 identified a biomarker (MGMT) to predict benefit from temozolomide; yet this represents only…

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