ntroduction
Palliative care focuses on the relief of suffering and the improvement of the quality of life (QOL). Therefore, it applies to every cancer patient, either on its own or com- bined with active therapies, either in hospices or in out- patient departments. In this setting, brain tumor patients warrant particular emphasis, because most of them re- main, unfortunately, beyond therapeutic cure and be- cause, compared with other cancer patients, they report the most severe symptoms and concerns [1••]. Yet, there are still many obstacles in the path to palliative and hos- pice care, making this a very challenging aspect of neu- rooncology [2•].