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Improvement of survival Our retrospecti ve study found a significant gain in survival for patients who underwent reoperation compared with patients who underwent resection at first diagnosis only (almost 23 months vs. 14 months). Fifty-nine of these patient s underwent at least 1 repeat sur gery for treatment of recurrent GBM (reoperation group), and 10 of these 59 patients underwent 2 reoperations, for a total of 69 repeat resection procedures. [34] Ening et al. also found that patients who underwent reoperation at recurrence survived significantly longer than patients who did not (19 vs. 13 months, P = 0.002). Similarly, Barker and coworkers found that the median survival was longer for their 46 patients who underwent reoperation than for their patients who only underwent 1 craniotomy. [Extracted from the article]