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Get Advanced Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment with Mayo Clinic Experts
At Mayo Clinic, your glioma care team will have the deep expertise to provide an accurate diagnosis, assess your specific tumor type, and customize a treatment plan for you. Doctors from multiple disciplines will work together on your care team to provide exactly the care you need.
Glioma expertise focused on you.
We are experienced in all glioma treatment options and conduct new clinical trials and pioneer new approaches to bring medical innovation to you faster.
Innovation and options.
Mayo Clinic is one of the nation’s largest treatment and research centers for brain tumors.
We use the latest technology and medical research to treat even the most complex cases, including:
- Caring for women with glioma during pregnancy.
- Performing MRI imaging on people with implanted medical devices like pacemakers
To treat diffuse midline glioma, a rare tumor typically occurring in young children and often fatal within a year, we are investigating two new approaches – fractionated radiation therapy and convection-enhanced delivery of anti-cancer medication.
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.
With state-of-the-art research, laboratory, and radiation facilities—including proton beam therapy – we are always seeking new answers and solutions for brain tumors.
Treatment tailored to you.
We consider the type, size, and location of the glioma, as well as your health and preferences, to develop the best treatment plan for you.
Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons pioneered surgical techniques for gliomas, including computer-assisted brain surgery, intraoperative MRI, awake brain surgery and lasers. With expertise in surgery and other treatments such as convection-enhanced delivery (CED) of chemotherapy, we provide the widest range of treatment options available.
Treatment options include surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, as well as:
- Tumor treating fields therapy, which uses electrical energy to make it hard for glioma cells to grow. It’s used to treat an aggressive type of glioma called glioblastoma.
- Targeted therapy treatments, which can block specific chemicals present within cancer cells, causing the cells to die. Your glioma cells may be tested to see if targeted therapy might help you.
Additional treatments may include:
- Medicine to control seizures.
- Steroid medicines to reduce brain swelling.
- Medicine to improves alertness if you have severe fatigue.
- Medicine to help with thinking and memory problems.
- Physical therapy.
Clinical trials may be available to you, as well.
Top ranked.
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 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.
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Mayo Clinic has agreements with many insurance carriers, third-party administrators, and employers.
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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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