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

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...

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...