Brain Metastases Care - Mayo Clinic in Arizona

Each year, Mayo Clinic doctors diagnose and treat more than 1,500 people each year with brain metastases, including those with rare conditions and those who require complex surgeries.

Our experts have extensive experience using the most innovative technology. Many of the current standards of care were developed and established in clinical trials led by Mayo Clinic physicians. Our teams continue to develop new treatments and techniques to advance and improve care.

At Mayo Clinic, your team of experts will care for you as an individual, taking the time to learn about you and your goals. They’ll work together on a comprehensive treatment plan to provide you with exactly the care you need.

At Mayo Clinic you will find doctors who specialize in brain metastases and work with you to choose an individualized treatment plan from the full range of options. They use an integrated cancer care model, which means they focus on restoring your ability to function and improving your quality of life. Mayo Clinic doctors have extensive experience diagnosing brain metastases, even the rarest types, using a team approach. In many cases, you can be diagnosed and start treatment in just a few days.

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

Neurologists
Neuroradiologists
Neuropathologists
Neurosurgeons
Medical oncologists
Radiation oncologists
Rehabilitation specialists
Integrative medicine specialists
Nurse navigation
Additional professionals as needed

At Mayo Clinic, you will have access to individualized care designed to help reduce hospital stays, lower complication rates, shorten recovery time and give you the best possible quality-of-life outcomes.

Mayo Clinic doctors are experts in all treatments, from targeted therapies to complex brain surgeries. Treatment may include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, clinical trials or a combination of treatments.

We use innovative, noninvasive imaging technology, including:

3D magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), a technique invented at Mayo Clinic that is used to improve brain tumor surgery options.
MRI perfusion and spectroscopy
CT myelography
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.

We offer advanced therapies available at few medical institutions. These include:

Proton therapy. Proton beams, unlike X-rays, do not travel beyond the tumor, so radiation is delivered to the tumor while protecting nearby healthy tissue. This therapy is offered at the Rochester and Phoenix locations and is coming to the Jacksonville location in 2026.
Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT). A long tube (catheter) is used to advance a laser into the brain to destroy cancerous tissue with heat.
Operating rooms for brain surgery, equipped with intraoperative MRI. This creates accurate brain images that guide the neurosurgeon in removing only tumor tissue, while protecting healthy brain tissue to help preserve hearing, language, and other brain functions.
Stereotactic radiosurgery. This is used to treat many brain metastases, including widely spaced tumors, often in a single treatment session.

This image displays the radiology scanned imaging from a 3 Tesla MRI. The 3 Tesla MRI, while using a less powerful magnetic field compared to the 7 Tesla MRI, still provides clear and detailed images of the body's interior. It is commonly used in clinical settings to diagnose and monitor various medical conditions, offering valuable insights for patient care and treatment planning. However, the clarity of the images produced by the 3 Tesla MRI is not as high as that of the 7 Tesla MRI, which can impact the level of detail visible in the scans.

Mayo Clinic in Arizona’s Neurology and Neurosurgery specialties are recognized on Newsweek’s World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2025 list.

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

In recognition of our scientific leadership in cancer care and research, Mayo Clinic was one of the first National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer centers and is the only such center with three unique locations today. Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center meets the strict standards for scientific excellence and a multispecialty approach focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

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Seeing the unseeable with new imaging technology

Highly ranked expertise.

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