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.

Pineal Parenchymal Tumours

Pineal parenchymal Tumours form from parenchymal cells or pinocytes, the cells that make up most of the pineal gland. These differ from pineal astrocytic Tumours, which are astrocytomas that form in tissue that supports the pineal gland. Grades of pineal parenchymal Tumours include the following:

• Pineocytomas (grade II): Pineocytomas are slow-growing pineal Tumours that occur most often in adults aged 25 to 35.

• Pineoblastomas (grade IV): Pineoblastomas are rare and highly malignant. They usually occur in children.

Treatment of pineal parenchymal Tumours 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.