Treating Brain Tumors

Use your scroll bar to see the many treatment topics on this page. Click on the blue text for more detailed information. Inclusion in this web site does not constitute an endorsement of any service, institution, physician, or treatment.

Seizures and Seizure First Aid
Do you know what a seizure is, or how to respond to someone having a seizure? This article and tip list can help.

Special Internet Presentation:  Seizure Preparedness for anyone who might need to respond to a child or an adult having a seizure. Hosted by the Epilepsy Foundation. View this free audio/video/chat at http://www.epliveonline.org/epilepsy0626.html.  

Steroids
Explains what steroids are, why they are used, side effects, and tips for managing those effects.

Surgery
Explains the types of surgical procedures used for brain tumors, the latest tools and techniques available to neurosurgeons, and questions to ask your doctor about the surgery planned for you. Features photos from an actual craniotomy.

Educational video:  View a frontal lobe craniotomy during which neurosurgeons removed a glioma. The program is offered free at the OR-Live web site:  http://www.or-live.com/universityhospitals/1931/. 

Chemotherapy
Explains the use of chemotherapy drugs as a treatment for brain tumors, the various methods of delivering drugs to the brain, and offers suggestions for managing potential side-effects. See also Additional Chemotherapy Information.

Conventional Radiation Therapy
Explains a common form of radiation therapy -- conventional external beam radiation (radiation therapy given every day for 5-6 weeks).

Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Explains this form of focused radiation therapy, describes and pictures the various pieces of equipment used to deliver radiosurgery, and describes a typical day of treatment. 

About Clinical Trials for Brain Tumors
Treatment in a clinical trial offers patients access to the newest treatments available. This publication describes, in easy to understand language, what clinical trials are and how they work.

Find Clinical Trials
This page announces trial seeking participants, and offers links to databases of additional trials.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Provides a basic introduction to many of the popular CAM therapies, suggestions for finding a practitioner, and several web sites for additional information.

Physician Resources List: Physician Offering Clinical Trials for Brain Tumors
Provided to those seeking a consultation or second opinion, the listing provides information about physicians involved in clinical trials for both adults and children with brain tumors. Included are the physicians' names, city/state, admitting hospitals, contact information, areas of treatment interest, and tumor-type interests. The list is not available online - please call one of our Information Specialists at 800-886-2282 for a copy.

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Current as of September, 2008