Going home one day after brain tumor surgery
Original title: Post-operative day one discharge following craniotomy for tumour resection.
How far along is this research?
- Lab cells
- Animals
- Review
- Tested in people
This was tested in people. That is the most reliable kind of research we share.
Doctors looked back at people already treated, and each team still decides case by case.
The short version
More than half of patients went home one day after brain tumor surgery.
What was studied. Doctors looked back at records for 263 people who had surgery to remove a brain tumor. The surgeries took place between November 2022 and December 2023. The team checked who was able to go home the next day.
What they found. 146 of the 263 patients went home the day after surgery. That is 55.5%. In the next 30 days, 8.0% of all patients had an unplanned return to the hospital. Among those who went home the next day, it was 7.5%. The day one group spent 1.0 days in the hospital over 30 days. The others spent 7.0 days.
What this means, and what it doesn't
What it could mean: If you are doing well after surgery, your team may be able to send you home the next day. In this group, going home early did not lead to more returns to the hospital. Ask your own care team what makes sense for you.
What it doesn't mean: This does not mean everyone can go home the next day. Many patients in this study could not. People with diabetes, problems after surgery, or new nerve problems were less likely to go home on day one. Tumors in sensitive parts of the brain were linked to more returns. This was one look back at records from one hospital. It is not a new treatment, and it is not a cure.
Source: PubMed, September 23, 2026 · Read the original
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