title: Glioblastoma: background, standard treatment paradigms, and supportive care considerations.
abstract: Glioblastoma is a brain tumor condition marked by rapid neurological and clinical demise, resulting in disproportionate disability for those affected. Caring for this group of patients is complex, intense, multidisciplinary in nature, and fraught with the need for expensive treatments, surveillance imaging, physician follow-up, and rehabilitative, psychological, and social support interventions. Few of these patients return to the workforce for any meaningful time frame, and because of the enormity of the financial burden that patients, their caregivers, and society face, utilization reviews become the focus of ethical scrutiny.
authors.affiliation: Currently in the intern year of her Neurology residency at the Duke University Medical Center.
authors.forename: Susan V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Ellor
authors.forename: Teri Ann
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Pagano-Young
authors.forename: Nicholas G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Avgeropoulos
mesh_terms: D026686:Beneficence; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D018447:Medical Futility; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life