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Correspondence 65 particularly as the assessment points seemed to be 'prior to radiation therapy' and at '4 weeks after completion', when the early delayed reaction must be at a maximum. In any case, many patients have made the decision not to go back to work, whether they are physically and intellectually capable of doing so or not, and the elderly are not working. The paper itself was also difficult to interpret because they do not comment on the age range of the patients treated, which is probably the most significant predictor of outcome. We do not have information on tumour grade (or indeed type), and, taken in conjunction with this insensitive performance scale with probable wide inter-and intraobserver variation, it is not possible even to analyse the survival rates in any meaningful form. Finally, I think it would be more correct to have mentioned throughout the paper (including in the title) that these were presumed malignant gliomas rather than 'high grade astrocytomas', since there is no histological proof of the diagnosis. The purpose of this letter is primarily to ensure that anyone reporting measurement of outcome, whether it be improvement in neurological impairment,

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Author

R. Fuentes

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Springer; Elsevier ; Springer-Verlag; W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd.; Springer Verlag; Elsevier BV; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1433-2981)

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)