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Under-recognized mental incapacity in brain tumour patients

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Many patients with brain tumours possess inadequate mental capacity to provide informed consent, but this situation often goes undetected because clinicians do not routinely conduct formal cognitive assessments. This oversight should be recognized and rectified to enable optimum ethical and medical care of these vulnerable individuals.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, 4 West, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, M5T 2S8, ON, Canada

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Bernstein, M. Under-recognized mental incapacity in brain tumour patients. Nat Rev Neurol 10, 487–488 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2014.143

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