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.