The choice of brain tumour patients treatment is often not the one of a single person, but of a whole team of different specialists, called a ‘multidisciplinary team’(MDT), that often includes doctors, neurosurgeons, neurologists, oncologists, assistants, nurses, social workers, couselors, dieteticians, and others.[1] When planning a treatment, it’s not only the destruction of the tumour that must be considered, but also the side effects and well-being of the patient during and after.
The chosen treatment can depend on : location of the tumour, it stage and grade(link to stages), type, the spread of the tumour, general health level of the patient.
The most common types of treatments are Surgery, Radiation Therapy, Chemotherapy ,Targeted and Immunotherapy , Steroids and Alternating electric field. If safe, surgical resection is generally the first recommendation as it is able to reduce the pressure the tumor induces on the brain most quickly. The lower the grade of the tumour, the fewer of these methods needs to be applied; for low-grade tumours, surgery might be sufficient and effective, whereas higher grade tumours might require a higher number of procedures.
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