Proper Treatment For Brain Cancer Patients

The treatment plan is made individually for each patient's brain cancer. The treatment plan developed by physicians who specialize in brain cancer, and treatments vary widely depending on the type of cancer, brain location, tumor size, patient age and general health conditions of patients. The main part of the plan is also determined by the will-the will of the patient. Patients should discuss treatment options with their doctors.


Surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy are the main categories of treatment for most cancers of the brain. Individual treatment plans often include a combination of these treatments. Therapeutic surgery trying to remove the tumor by cutting out of the normal brain tissue. 

Radiation therapy to try to destroy tumor cells by using high-energy radiation that is focused on the tumor. Chemotherapy to try to destroy tumor cells using chemicals (drugs) that are designed to destroy specific type of cancer cells. All treatments try to not damage the cells of normal brain.
Other treatments that may be part of some treatment plans may include hyperthermia (heat treatments), immunotherapy (immune cells are directed to kill the cancer cell types only), or steroids to reduce inflammation and swelling of the brain. Clinical trials (treatment plans designed by scientists to try chemicals or new methods in these patients) may be another way for patients to obtain treatment specifically for their type of cancer cells.

The best treatment for brain cancer was designed by a team of cancer specialists in relation to the will of the patient.