“…Existing literature, including four previous reviews on support systems of brain tumour patients, have only focused on palliative care [26,28], interventions [45], telemedicine [46], non-medical therapies [28], and caregivers [28]. The current systematic review examined patient support services in the acute diagnostic period based on qualitative analysis of 14 studies, classified into three support domains: (1) format and level of information provided to patients [14,35,36,[39][40][41][42], (2) ongoing communication with patients [14,15,34,35,38,41,43,44,47] and (3) patient participation in treatment [5,38,[40][41][42][43][44].…”