Astrocytoma Care - Mayo Clinic in Arizona

Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons have pioneered surgical techniques to help treat astrocytoma, including computer-assisted brain surgery, intraoperative MRI, awake brain surgery, and LITT (laser ablation).

Mayo Clinic uses 7-Tesla MRI. This imaging system uses a stronger magnetic field to produce more detailed images of the body's interior. Detailed brain scans help Mayo Clinic care teams diagnose and treat patients with brain tumors. This advanced imaging technology is key to ensuring patients receive an accurate diagnosis to guide treatment.

Through these latest innovations and extensive expertise in treating multiple tumor types, the astrocytoma team at Mayo Clinic provides people the widest range of treatment options available.

After an evaluation with the multidisciplinary team of experts, you will have a treatment plan tailored specifically to you, which may include:

Genomic sequencing of your tumor
Advanced radiation
Chemotherapy
Targeted therapy, molecular therapy, chemotherapy
Clinical trials
Functional precision oncology
Nurse navigation
Integrative oncology

And with our state-of-the-art research and laboratory facilities, Mayo Clinic experts are constantly seeking new medical knowledge and innovations to bring to people with astrocytomas.

Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Mayo Clinic in Arizona, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been ranked #1 in the state of Arizona for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Cancer care.

Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona ranks among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Mayo Clinic in Arizona’s Neurology and Neurosurgery specialties are recognized on Newsweek’s World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2025 list.

Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center meets strict standards for a National Cancer Institute comprehensive cancer center, recognizing scientific excellence and a multispecialty approach focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Why Choose Mayo Clinic for Brain Tumor Care

Mayo Clinic is a fantastic place to have multidisciplinary care for highly complex patients. The Brain Tumor Program here is flourished with people who really care about what they do. Collectively, we perform thousands and thousands of brain tumor procedures every year, and there just isn't really anywhere else in the country or to my knowledge around the world that could equal that degree of experience. Patients will even ask me is like, wow, this is a really rare disease. And I'll say, well, yes, it is rare, but we are a referral center and we see these unusual, uncommon diseases to us. And so as a team, it's not rare, so maybe one in a million out there, but it's certainly not one in a million here. One of the things that we do here is make sure that we can see people almost right away. We have a policy that we'll see anybody with a brain tumor within 48 hours if they want to be seen that quickly. Time is critical, for the management of patients with brain cancers. Our practices are such that, you know, we find it really easy to contact our neurosurgeons or radiation oncologists and get insights into the care of the patient immediately so that we can handle patient care at that moment. One of the things that we've been also thinking about is the time the patients spend here at the clinic and what's the financial toxicities to them and what does it mean to their life. So a lot of our approaches is also exploring shorter courses of radiation and targeted better with our new diagnostic technologies that we have. We also have one of the largest, if not the largest group of MRI magnets at three Tesla, which is kind of the higher standard clinical grade. We also had the first seven Tesla magnet, the strongest magnet approved for clinical use in brain imaging that was first developed and put into use clinically here at Mayo Clinic. And so that just gives us, an added degree of information, that we wouldn't have otherwise. Our nuclear medicine department here is spectacular and have led the way with a number of novel PET scans for metabolic imaging, which we have used at least experimentally, to guide surgery, to guide radiation treatments for brain tumors with excellent outcomes. We are always pushing the boundaries for new treatments. I tell patients we're better at treating brain tumors now than we were a year ago or five years ago, and we're gonna be better a year from now, or five years from now. So that depth of expertise really makes a difference. Mayo Clinic represents hope for many patients. We really do provide comprehensive, world-class care. It really is a great team. There are not many other places in the world that have the same degree of experiences as we have, and that matters for the outcomes for patients.

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Why Choose Mayo Clinic for Brain Tumor Care