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Adult Brain Tumor Learning Center
Treatments could include:
- Chemotherapy
- Surgical Removal of...
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Debulking of Brain Tumor
- Radiation Therapy
- Stereotactic Radios...
- Craniotomy
- Gamma Knife Radiosu...
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Microsurgery
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Craniectomy with excision of brain tumor
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Treatment can involve surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. Brain tumors are best treated by a team involving a neurosurgeon, radiation oncologist, oncologist, or neuro-oncologist, and other health care providers, such as neurologists and ...
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Chemotherapy is the systemic (whole body) treatment of cancer with anticancer drugs.
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Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill bacteria, viruses, fungi, and cancer cells. Most commonly, the term is used to refer to cancer-killing drugs. This article focuses on cancer chemotherapy.
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Chemotherapy is treatment of cancer with anticancer drugs .
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Chemotherapy, sometimes referred to as "chemo," is the treatment of cancer with anticancer drugs.
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Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with anti- cancer drugs .
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Tumor removal is a surgical procedure to remove an abnormal growth.
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A tumor is an abnormal growth caused by the uncontrolled division of cells. Benign tumors do not have the potential to spread to other parts of the body (a process called metastasis) and are curable by surgical removal. Malignant or cancerous tumo...
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Radiation therapy, sometimes called radiotherapy, x-ray therapy radiation treatment, cobalt therapy, electron beam therapy, or irradiation uses high energy, penetrating waves or particles such as x rays, gamma rays, proton rays, or neutron rays to...
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Radiation therapy uses high powered x-rays or radioactive seeds to kill cancer cells.
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Radiotherapy is the use of high-energy penetrating radiation (x rays, gamma rays, proton rays, and neutron rays) to kill cancer cells.
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Radiation therapy, sometimes called radiotherapy, x-ray therapy radiation treatment, cobalt therapy, electron beam therapy, or irradiation uses high energy, penetrating waves or particles such as x rays, gamma rays, proton rays, or neutron rays to...
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A craniotomy is the surgical removal of part of the skull to expose the brain.
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Surgical removal of part of the skull to expose the brain.
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A craniotomy is a procedure to remove a lesion in the brain through an opening in the skull (cranium).
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A craniotomy is a procedure to remove a lesion in the brain through an opening in the skull (cranium).
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Stereotactic radiosurgery is the use of a precise beam of radiation to destroy tissue in the brain.
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Stereotactic radiosurgery is a form of radiation therapy that focuses high-powered x-rays on a small area of the body. With regular radiation therapy treatment, healthy tissue that is nearby also receives radiation. Stereotactic radiosurgery bette...
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Microsurgery is surgery that is performed on very small structures, such as blood vessels and nerves, with specialized instruments under a microscope.
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