Golebiowska Maria, Golebiowska Beata, Siripanich Chonlada, Klatka Maria, Wieleba Malgorzata . New opportunities in glioma therapy - awake craniotomy . Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2017;7(9):58-67. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.883479 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/4755 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/830296 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2017; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 01.08.2017. Revised: 02.08.2017. Accepted: 28.08.2017. New opportunities in glioma therapy - awake craniotomy Maria Golebiowska 1 , Beata Golebiowska 2 , Chonlada Siripanich 3 , Maria Klatka 4 , Malgorzata Wieleba 2 1 Student, I Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lublin 2 Pediatric Neurology Department, III Chair of Pediatrics, Medical University of Lublin 3 Student, II Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lublin 4 Endocrinology and Pediatric Diabetology Department, III Chair of Pediatrics, Medical University of Lublin Maria Golebiowska 1 , Beata Golebiowska MD, PhD 2 , Chonlada Siripanich 3 , Maria Klatka MD, PhD 4 , Malgorzata Wieleba MD 2 Abstract: In some populations over the past 30 years there has been an increase of 30% in brain tumors morbidity, in Poland, over two-fold increase within three decades. Even though the diagnostics is significantly increasing, the mortality still remains high - general statistics of survival is 34%, for the most malignant cases - less than 5%. Brain tumor resection is essential not only for the overall survival, but the post-operative quality of life is as important as the survival rate. Especially in motor and language area lesions, the greater resections with lesser post-operative complications are required. The modern opportunity in favour of such circumstances is tend to grow within awake craniotomy technique. The aim of the study is to present the newest achievements in field of neurosurgical awake surgery. For the purpose of this study, most significant works have been reviewed in period 2000-2015. Study reveals the growing importance of awake surgery with simultaneous necessity for new pre-operative technologies, which can support the greater outcomes of the surgeries. Apart from that, the concerns of the ethical matter can be withdrawn if the valid algorythms and guidelines are applied for this procedure. Keywords MeSH: awake craniotomy, glioma, neurosurgery