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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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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