Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- * Subjects must have suspected high grade glioma by MRI
- * Subjects must have received no prior therapies for this disease.
- * Patients must be considered appropriate candidates for LITT.
- * Karnofsky Performance status ≥ 60%
- * Subjects must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below. Measures of function must be within 14 days prior to registration.
- * Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1500 cells/mm3, platelets ≥ 100,000 cells/mm3, hemoglobin ≥ 10.0 g/dl. Use of transfusion or other intervention to achieve this hemoglobin level is acceptable.
- * Blood urea nitrogen ≤ 30mg/dl and creatinine ≤ 1.7 mg/dl
- * Bilirubin ≤ 2.0 mg/dl, Aspartate aminotransferase/ Alanine aminotransferase (AST/ALT) ≤ 3x upper limit of normal
- * Electrocardiogram without evidence of acute cardiac ischemia
- * Prothrombin time/international normalized ratio (PT INR) \<1.4
- * Women of childbearing potential and male participants must practice adequate contraception.
- * For women of childbearing age, negative pregnancy test within 14 days prior to registration
- * Subjects must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
Exclusion Criteria:
- * Participants not eligible to obtain MRI with and without contrast
- * Recurrent High grade gliomas (HGG)
- * Cerebral edema, grade 3 or greater prior to surgery
- * Post-operative complications including significant neurological decline or hemorrhage that causes a drop in KPS to less than 60 or renders the patient not suitable for chemoradiation as determined by their treating physician
- * Severe co-morbidity that would confer excess risk of surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, as determined by the treating physician.
- Any other major medical illnesses or psychiatric impairments that in the investigator's opinion will prevent administration of completion of protocol therapy
- * Any other major medical illnesses or psychiatric impairments that in the investigator's opinion will prevent administration or completion of protocol therapy.
- * Pregnancy or women of childbearing potential and men who are sexually active and not willing/able to use medically acceptable forms of contraception; this exclusion is necessary because the treatment involved in this study may be significantly teratogenic.
- * Participants receiving other investigational agents.
Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years to N/A (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No