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Treatments could include:
- Chemotherapy
- Radiation Therapy
- Brain Surgery
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Electromagnetic Energy Therapy
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Radiofrequency Destruction
- Gene Therapy
- Immunotherapy
- Craniotomy
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Microsurgery
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Intravenous chemotherapy
- Surgical Removal of...
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Craniectomy with excision of brain tumor
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Brain tumors are treated by multidisciplinary teams of highly skilled specialists whose decisions are based on: results of diagnostic tests tumor size, position, and growth pattern the patient's health history and current medical status the wishes...
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Patients with brain tumors are treated by multidisciplinary teams of highly skilled specialists whose decisions are based on test results; tumor size, position, and growth pattern; the patient's history and current medical status; and the patient'...
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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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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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Brain surgery treats problems in the brain and the structures around it through an opening (craniotomy) in the skull (cranium.
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Gene therapy is a rapidly growing field of medicine in which genes are introduced into the body to treat diseases. Genomics is the DNA which is found in an organism's total set of genes and is passed on to the offspring as information necessary fo...
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Classic gene therapy is the direct use of genetic material in the treatment of disease. This usually involves inserting a functional gene or DNA fragment into key cells to mitigate, or cure, a disease. A broader definition of gene therapy includes...
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Gene therapy is a rapidly growing field of medicine in which genes are introduced into the body to treat diseases. Genes control heredity and provide the basic biological code for determining a cell's specific functions. Gene therapy seeks to prov...
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Gene therapy is a rapidly growing field of medicine in which genes are introduced into the body to treat diseases. Genes control heredity and provide the basic biological code for determining a cell's specific functions. Gene therapy seeks to prov...
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Gene therapy is a rapidly growing field of medicine in which genes are introduced into the body to treat diseases. Genes control heredity and provide the basic biological code for determining a cell's specific functions. Gene therapy seeks to prov...
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Immunologic therapy is the treatment of disease using medicines that boost the body's natural immune response .
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Immunologic therapy is the treatment of disease using medicines that boost the body's natural immune response.
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Immunologic therapy is an approach to the treatment of disease that uses medicines for stimulating the body's natural immune response.
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Venom immunotherapy is the process of injecting venom to treat various conditions. The most common form of venom immunization is bee venom therapy (BVT), with honeybee venom or stingers used to treat conditions. BVT is one form of apitherapy , whi...
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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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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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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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