Treatment Options for Brain Tumours

Talk to your Neurosurgeon or Dr Pope will be more than willing to discuss these with you.

Read more about specific brain Tumour types and their treatment options:

• General Treatment Options For Brain Tumours

• Brain Stem Gliomas

• Pineal Astrocytic Tumour

• Pilocytic Astrocytoma (grade I)

• Diffuse Astrocytoma (grade II)

• Anaplastic Astrocytoma (grade III)

• Glioblastoma (grade IV)

• Oligodendroglial Tumours

• Mixed Gliomas

• Ependymal Tumours

• Medulloblastoma (grade IV)

• Pineal Parenchymal Tumours

• Meningeal Tumours

• Germ Cell Tumour

• Craniopharyngioma (grade II)

• Pituitary Tumours

• Metastatic Brain Tumors

• Recurrent Adult Brain Tumor

Talk to your Neurosurgeon or Dr Pope will be more than willing to discuss these with you.

Metastatic Brain Tumours

The types of cancer that commonly spread to the brain are cancers of the lung, breast, unknown primary site, melanoma, and colon. About half of metastatic spinal cord Tumours are caused by lung cancer.

Prognosis depends on the following:

• Whether the patient is younger than 60 years.

• Whether there are fewer than 3 Tumours in the brain and/or spinal cord.

• The location of the Tumours in the brain and/or spinal cord.

• How well the tumour responds to treatment.

• Whether the primary tumour continues to grow or spread.

The prognosis is better for brain metastases from breast cancer than from other types of primary cancer. The prognosis is worse for brain metastases from colon cancer.