Treatment 2
Most brain cancer patients undergo a surgery. The purpose of the surgery is to indeed confirm that the growing mass or the abnormality seen in the brain is a tumor. If in any case the tumor cannot be removed, the surgeon will take a small part to identify the type of the tumor.
When the tumor is benign, the neurosurgeon will attempt to remove the tumor whenever it is possible to do so. A new ‘knifeless’ technique is being used nowadays. Stereotactic surgery destroys the tumor without opening the skull. The patient undergoes CTI or MRI scan to pinpoint the exact location of the tumor. High energy radiation is pointed to the tumor at different angles and the radiation destroys the tumor.