Treatment of Brain Tumors

As a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, Roswell Park offers the latest procedures, using state-of-the-art tools and medications, plus advancements that make treatments safer and more effective than ever before. 

The main treatment for many brain tumors — surgery — now involves minimally invasive techniques and uses cutting-edge visualization techniques, advanced intraoperative neuromonitoring, and stereotactic navigation in the brain.

Your treatment for a brain tumor will be based on several factors, including:

• The type of brain cell from which the tumor grew — for example, an astrocyte or oligodendrocyte
• The tumor’s location, including assessment of the critical functions performed by that area of the brain
• Your age and medical conditions
• The grade of your tumor and the pattern of tumor spread
• Whether your tumor can be completely removed
• Molecular and genetic markers of your tumor

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Roswell Park’s comprehensive care means that your neurosurgery, oncology, and radiation medicine teams work together to provide the best therapies — and the optimal sequence of these treatments — for you. Your personalized treatment plan for a brain or central nervous system tumor will likely include one or more of the following:

• Surgery to remove the tumor, while carefully protecting surrounding healthy brain tissue and preserving function.
• Gamma Knife radiosurgery, a minimally invasive, state-of-the-art, focused radiation therapy that treats brain tumors and brain metastases without incisions.
• Radiation therapy and chemotherapy, in addition to or as an alternative to, surgery
• Immunotherapy for glioblastoma
• Clinical trials to access the very latest therapies
• Specialized care for patients with tumors related to the genetic condition, neurofibromatosis.

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