Ethical difficulties in the innovative surgical treatment of patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme

Affiliations

• ¹ Cushing Neurosurgical Outcomes Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ² Department of Neurosurgery, Göztepe Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
• ³ Department of Neurosurgery, Rigshopsitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford, United Kingdom.
• ⁵ The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom.
• ⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum, Rotenburg, Germany.
• ⁷ Department of Neurosurgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• ⁸ Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center Haaglanden, The Hague, The Netherlands.
• ⁹ Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ¹¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden ; and.
• ¹² Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.