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.

Mixed Gliomas

Mixed gliomas are brain Tumours that contain more than one type of cell. The prognosis is affected by the cell type with the highest grade present in the tumour.

• Oligoastrocytoma (grade II): Oligoastrocytomas are slow-growing Tumours composed of cells that look like astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.

• Anaplastic oligoastrocytoma (grade III): These are higher-grade oligoastrocytomas. The average age of patients developing anaplastic oligoastrocytomas is 45 years.

Treatment of mixed gliomas 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 or biologic therapy following radiation therapy.