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Contralateral DTI-ALPS index as a prognostic biomarker in IDH-wildtype glioblastoma: integrating extent of resection and sex-stratified analyses.

Brain imaging measurements may help predict outcomes in glioblastoma, with emerging sex-specific patterns worth exploring further.

This PubMed record reports a retrospective observational study about Contralateral DTI-ALPS index as a prognostic biomarker in IDH-wildtype glioblastoma: integrating extent of resection and sex-stratified analyses. The available abstract indicates Sex-stratified analyses showed numerically stronger associations in females, but formal interaction testing did not confirm effect modification.

What the study was

Study design
Retrospective observational study
Population
Human participants
Sample size
57
Category
Early Detection
Maturity
Validated
Journal
Neuroradiology

Why it surfaced

Retrospective observational study; directly matches Early cancer detection. Conservative abstract-level score 8/10.

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