Treatment depends on tumor type, size and location of the tumor, as well as your overall health and choice. The doctor can tailor treatment to suit the situation.
Surgery
If the tumor is located in a place that provides for the surgery, the surgeon will remove as much of your brain tumor as possible. In some cases, the tumors are small and easy to distinguish from surrounding brain tissue, making complete surgical removal possible. In other cases, tumors can not be separated from the surrounding tissue, or are close to sensitive areas of the brain, surgery risky. In these situations, your doctor may try to remove the tumor as is safe. Also remove the brain tumor may help reduce the symptoms experienced. In some cases, only a small biopsy will confirm the diagnosis.
Surgery to remove a brain tumor has risks such as infection and bleeding. Other risks depend on the part of the brain where the tumor. For example, surgery for a tumor near the nerves that connect the eye can cause a risk of vision loss.
Radiotherapy
Radiation therapy uses beams of high energy particles, such as X-rays to kill tumor cells. Radiation may come from a machine outside the body (external radiation therapy) or, in rare cases, radiation can be put into your body close to his brain tumor (brachytherapy).
External radiation therapy can only focus on the area of your brain where the tumor or may be applied to your entire brain (whole brain radiation). Whole brain radiation is sometimes used after surgery to kill tumor cells that could be over.
Side effects of radiotherapy depend on the type and dose of radiation received. In general, it can cause headaches, fatigue, and irritation of the scalp.
Radiosurgery
Stereotactic radiosurgery does not cut shape in the traditional sense. Instead, radiosurgery uses multiple beams of radiation to give a highly concentrated form of radiation therapy to destroy cancer cells in a very small area. Each beam of radiation is not particularly strong, but to the point where all the beams meet - from a brain tumor - is a very high dose of radiation to kill cancer cells.
Radiosurgery usually takes place in treatment, and in most cases, you can go home the same day. Side effects can include fatigue, headache and nausea.
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy drugs can be taken orally in pill form or injected into a vein (intravenously).
Another type of chemotherapy can be placed during surgery. By removing all or part of the brain tumor, the surgeon may place one or more disks in the form of platelets in the space left by the tumor. These wafers slowly release a chemotherapy drug in the coming days.
Side effects of chemotherapy depend on the type and dose of medication you receive. Systemic chemotherapy may cause nausea, vomiting and hair loss.
Targeted Drug Therapy
Targeted drug therapies focus on specific abnormalities present within cancer cells. By blocking these anomalies, targeted therapies can cause cancer cells to die. Many of the targeted drug therapies are very recent and still in progress to take into account non-clinical studies.
The drug therapy used to treat brain tumors is bevacizumab (Avastin). The drug, through a vein (intravenously), stops the formation of new blood vessels, cutting off the blood supply to the tumor and destroy tumor cells.
The rehabilitation therapy
Because brain tumors can develop in parts of the brain that controls motor skills, speech, vision and thought, can not repair a necessary part of healing. Your doctor can refer you to services that can help, such as:
Physical therapy can help you regain lost motor skills or muscle strength.
Occupational therapy can help return to normal daily activities, like work, when a brain tumor or other diseases.
Speech therapy experienced difficulty with the language (speech therapists) can help if you have difficulty speaking.
Tutoring for children of school age can help children cope with changes in their memory and thinking after a brain tumor.
Surgery
If the tumor is located in a place that provides for the surgery, the surgeon will remove as much of your brain tumor as possible. In some cases, the tumors are small and easy to distinguish from surrounding brain tissue, making complete surgical removal possible. In other cases, tumors can not be separated from the surrounding tissue, or are close to sensitive areas of the brain, surgery risky. In these situations, your doctor may try to remove the tumor as is safe. Also remove the brain tumor may help reduce the symptoms experienced. In some cases, only a small biopsy will confirm the diagnosis.
Surgery to remove a brain tumor has risks such as infection and bleeding. Other risks depend on the part of the brain where the tumor. For example, surgery for a tumor near the nerves that connect the eye can cause a risk of vision loss.
Radiotherapy
Radiation therapy uses beams of high energy particles, such as X-rays to kill tumor cells. Radiation may come from a machine outside the body (external radiation therapy) or, in rare cases, radiation can be put into your body close to his brain tumor (brachytherapy).
External radiation therapy can only focus on the area of your brain where the tumor or may be applied to your entire brain (whole brain radiation). Whole brain radiation is sometimes used after surgery to kill tumor cells that could be over.
Side effects of radiotherapy depend on the type and dose of radiation received. In general, it can cause headaches, fatigue, and irritation of the scalp.
Radiosurgery
Stereotactic radiosurgery does not cut shape in the traditional sense. Instead, radiosurgery uses multiple beams of radiation to give a highly concentrated form of radiation therapy to destroy cancer cells in a very small area. Each beam of radiation is not particularly strong, but to the point where all the beams meet - from a brain tumor - is a very high dose of radiation to kill cancer cells.
Radiosurgery usually takes place in treatment, and in most cases, you can go home the same day. Side effects can include fatigue, headache and nausea.
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy drugs can be taken orally in pill form or injected into a vein (intravenously).
Another type of chemotherapy can be placed during surgery. By removing all or part of the brain tumor, the surgeon may place one or more disks in the form of platelets in the space left by the tumor. These wafers slowly release a chemotherapy drug in the coming days.
Side effects of chemotherapy depend on the type and dose of medication you receive. Systemic chemotherapy may cause nausea, vomiting and hair loss.
Targeted Drug Therapy
Targeted drug therapies focus on specific abnormalities present within cancer cells. By blocking these anomalies, targeted therapies can cause cancer cells to die. Many of the targeted drug therapies are very recent and still in progress to take into account non-clinical studies.
The drug therapy used to treat brain tumors is bevacizumab (Avastin). The drug, through a vein (intravenously), stops the formation of new blood vessels, cutting off the blood supply to the tumor and destroy tumor cells.
The rehabilitation therapy
Because brain tumors can develop in parts of the brain that controls motor skills, speech, vision and thought, can not repair a necessary part of healing. Your doctor can refer you to services that can help, such as:
Physical therapy can help you regain lost motor skills or muscle strength.
Occupational therapy can help return to normal daily activities, like work, when a brain tumor or other diseases.
Speech therapy experienced difficulty with the language (speech therapists) can help if you have difficulty speaking.
Tutoring for children of school age can help children cope with changes in their memory and thinking after a brain tumor.
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