Cancer Care

Conditions Treated

• Brain Tumour
• Most common are: glioblastoma (grade 4), meningiomas, other astrocytomas (e.g. oligodendroglioma)
• There are over 125 types of brain tumours
• Brain metastasis (spread from elsewhere in the body)

Treatments

Tumour removal options

• Craniotomy for primary tumour and metastasis
• Aware craniotomy with brain mapping
• Minimally invasive brain surgery
• Complex brain surgery with monitoring of brain signals, nerves and vessels during surgery
• Implantation of chemo wafers such as gliadel
• Combined endoscopic approach for tumour, pituitary & cysts

Tumour biopsy

• Frameless stereotactic biopsy

Non-invasive options

• Radiotherapy
• Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Other treatments

• Chemotherapy
• Radiation therapy
• Immunotherapy
• Monitoring for disease relapse