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World-Class Care for Brain Cancer Begins Here
At Mayo Clinic, we continue to innovate so you can focus on life beyond brain cancer. We bring together a team of experts specialized in your individual tumor type who create an individualized care plan for your needs – one that includes all aspects of treatment, recovery, and quality of life.
- Reduced hospital stays. Many people who undergo brain tumor surgery at Mayo Clinic leave the hospital in one or two days.
- Lower complication rates. Technological advances allow our surgeons and radiation oncologists to avoid injury to healthy brain tissue.
- Shorter recovery time. Minimally invasive procedures often result in smaller incisions and scars.
- Improved quality of life. We manage side effects and work to preserve and maintain motor and cognitive function, speech, cosmetic outcomes, and psychological well-being.
We operate on tumors that other centers may not.
With our expertise and technology, we often treat people with Stage 3 or 4, or metastatic brain cancer. More than 7,000 adults and children with brain and other central nervous system cancers come to Mayo Clinic each year.
Getting a second or third opinion at Mayo Clinic for an advanced or “inoperable” tumor is about finding options and the best possible outcome for you.
Surgical innovations for safer procedures.
We use advanced technologies to operate closer to vital areas of the brain with confidence and make procedures safer.
- 3-D printing, augmented reality, and holography to plan the least invasive approach to surgery.
- Intraoperative MRI (iMRI) to map the brain and maintain functional areas.
- Fluorescence-guided surgery to visualize the tumor’s location more precisely.
- Minimally invasive, scarless brain surgery to enable faster recovery with fewer side effects. Approaches include key-hole surgery, radiosurgery, laser thermal ablation, and proton beam radiotherapy.
The power of advanced diagnostics.
We analyze the tumor and your healthy brain tissue using advanced approaches, so we can make treatment decisions that are more precise and personalized for you.
- Molecular diagnostics to analyze your tumor’s DNA and predict which treatments will work best for your specific tumor type.
- Functional and metabolic activity analysis to learn about tumor metabolism and functioning of the surrounding area.
- Tumor firmness and adhesion analysis to determine the tumor’s firmness and adhesion to healthy brain tissue, so your surgical team can plan with precision. This state-of-the art technology was invented at Mayo Clinic.
Therapies designed to minimize side effects.
Our radiation therapies are designed to target tumor cells and minimize effects on healthy brain tissue.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery includes Gamma Knife®, which delivers a high dose of radiation to a very small area of the brain.
- Proton beam therapy delivers precise radiotherapy to the tumor with less radiation to the surrounding brain tissue.
Innovative treatments and clinical trials.
Our physicians conduct research to bring advancement to patients faster with treatments and clinical trials. You can find the latest brain tumor clinical trials at Mayo Clinic.
Research includes:
- The most effective combination of medications and radiation therapies.
- Investigational immunotherapy to use a patient’s own immune systems to attack their cancer.
- Regenerative medicine approaches designed to repair brain tissue and encourage neuroregeneration.
We’re with you every step of the way.
Our care continues after your treatment. We offer a full suite of physical, occupational, speech and other rehabilitation and recovery therapies. We also can work with your local providers on a plan designed to regain any main function lost or impaired during treatment.
If you'd like to connect with others who have or are dealing with brain cancer, our Brain Cancer Support Group is a great place to start.
Our teams in the Midwest, in Arizona, and Florida collaborate, so you get all the benefit of Mayo Clinic expertise at every location.
When it's time to find answers, you know where to go.
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Why Choose Mayo Clinic for Brain Tumor Care.
You are never alone because it is a team-based approach at Mayo Clinic. You are always surrounded by brilliant minds, loving hearts, carrying souls who really want to join you every morning and work with you till the evening. Trust the patients are our family and the care of the patient is such a privilege. We don't take that lightly. So what I would say is the needs of the patient come first. And that's easy to say. And a lot of places will claim that. Mayo Clinic lives that. Working with the most extraordinary people in the world, most committed and dedicated people who will always, always, always, always put the needs of the patients first. They love taking care of patients in that passion translates into outstanding care for our patients and it's just a joy.
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