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How do you proceed with radiation planning for preliminary suspected high grade gliomas after surgery when there is a delay in final molecular diagnosis?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Louisville School of Medicine

While traditionally, for glioblastoma, we start post-operative radiation therapy within 4 weeks of surgery, recent reports (for example, from Israel) have shown better survival if radiation is started at 6 weeks, which should be sufficient time for molecular studies. If for whatever reason radiation...

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