The most common length of survival following diagnosis is 10 to 13 months, with fewer than 1 to 3% of people surviving longer than five years. In the United States between 2012 and 2016 five-year survival was 6.8%. Without treatment, survival is typically 3 months. Complete cures are extremely rare, but have been reported. There is currently one individual in the United States who has lived with the disease for longer than 20 years. Increasing age (> 60 years) carries a worse prognostic risk. Death is usually due to widespread tumor infiltration with cerebral edema and increased intracranial pressure. A good initial Karnofsky performance score (KPS) and MGMT methylation are associated with longer survival. A DNA test can be conducted on<unk> s to determine whether or not the promoter of the MGMT gene is methylated. Patients with a methylated MGMT promoter have longer survival than those with an unmethylated MGMT promoter, due in part to increased sensitivity to temozolomide. Another positive prognostic marker for<unk>  patients is mutation of the IDH1 gene, which can be tested by DNA-based methods or by immunohistochemistry using an antibody against the most common mutation, namely IDH1-R132H. More prognostic power can be obtained by combining the mutational status of IDH1 and the methylation status of MGMT into a two-gene predictor. Patients with both IDH1 mutations and MGMT methylation have the longest survival, patients with an IDH1 mutation or MGMT methylation an intermediate survival, and patients without either genetic event have the shortest survival. Long-term benefits have also been associated with those patients who receive surgery, radiotherapy, and temozolomide chemotherapy. However, much remains unknown about why some patients survive longer with<unk> . Age under 50 is linked to longer survival in<unk> , as is 98%+ resection and use of temozolomide chemotherapy and better KPSs. A recent study confirms that younger age is associated with a much better prognosis, with a small fraction of patients under 40 years of age achieving a population-based cure. Cure is thought to occur when a person's risk of death returns to that of the normal population, and in<unk> , this is thought to occur after 10 years. UCLA Neuro-oncology publishes real-time survival data for patients with this diagnosis. According to a 2003 study,<unk>  prognosis can be divided into three subgroups dependent on KPS, the age of the patient, and treatment. Recursive partitioning analysis(RPA) class Definition Historical Median Survival Time Historical 1-Year Survival Historical 3-Year Survival Historical 5-Year Survival III Age < 50, KPS ≥ 90 17.1 months 70% 20% 14% IV Age < 50, KPS < 90 11.2 months 46% 7% 4% Age ≥ 50, KPS ≥ 70, surgical removal with good neurologic function V + VI Age ≥ 50, KPS ≥ 70, surgical removal with poor neurologic function 7.5 months 28% 1% 0% Age ≥ 50, KPS ≥ 70, no surgical removal Age ≥ 50, KPS < 70
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