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How do you manage the timing of adjuvant therapy in a patient with a glioblastoma and a post-operative surgical site infection?

Would you delay/defer adjuvant radiation and/or temozolomide until completion of IV antibiotics? Would you still treat with a significant skull defect after removal of the bone flap?
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Radiation Oncology · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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There have been several studies on the timing of adjuvant therapy for glioblastoma including our institution https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26440447. In general, our practice has been to start adjuvant radiotherapy as soon as reasonably possible. If a glioblastoma patient has postoperative surg...

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Radiation Oncology · University of Colorado School of Medicine
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Luckily, this situation of a postoperative infection delaying treatment for a GBM doesn’t come up too often. Because while waiting for the infection to resolve, the GBM has sometimes progressed/recurred, requiring a discussion about second debulking surgery (which the surgeons are always tring to av...

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