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.

Anaplastic Astrocytoma (grade III)

Anaplastic astrocytomas are also called malignant astrocytomas. They grow rapidly and spread into nearby tissues. The tumour cells look different from normal cells. The average age of patients developing anaplastic astrocytomas is 41 years.

Treatment of anaplastic astrocytoma may include the following:

1. Surgery plus radiation therapy , with or without chemotherapy.

2. A clinical trial of external radiation therapy plus hyperthermia therapy or new methods of delivering radiation therapy.

3. A clinical trial of new anticancer drugs and biologic therapy following radiation therapy.

4. A clinical trial of chemotherapy combined with different methods of delivering radiation therapy.