Surgery for patients with ‘lower grade’ glioma: putting assumptions, beliefs and convictions into perspective

Annals of Oncology 2017; 28(8): 1696–1697. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdx295 An error was introduced to the name of the author during production. This has now been corrected online to M. Weller. The Publisher apologizes for this error. Surgery for patients with ‘lower grade’ glioma: putting assumptions, beliefs and convictions into perspectiveAnnals of OncologyVol. 28Issue 8PreviewFor decades neuro-oncology meetings have benefited from controversial, sometimes heated and emotional debates on the role of surgery for what has traditionally been falsely designated ‘low grade’ glioma; falsely since ‘low grade’ glioma evokes false expectations for often young patients and their caregivers confronted with a disease with a median survival around 7–8 years. Full-Text PDF Open Archive