Adult pineoblastoma: A prospective study and twelve-year experience from three tertiary care cancer institutes of India depicting the effect of various independent parameters and therapeutic strategy on progression and survival in this extremely rare

We undertook this study keeping the dose of postoperative radiation therapy and chemotherapy regimens constant for all patients irrespective of surgical status to maintain uniformity in the survival quotient. Despite the limitations, this study may represent the largest analysis of adult pineoblastomas reported in Indian literature to date.