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Various treatments are used to treat brain tumors. The type of treatment recommended depends on the size and type of tumor, the growth rate and the overall health of the patient. Treatment options include surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, targeted biological agents or a combination thereof. Surgical resection (if not dangerous) is usually the first recommendation of treatment to reduce pressure on our brain quickly. This website focuses on radiation therapy for brain tumors.

In the past two decades, researchers have developed new techniques to deliver radiation to the brain tumor while protecting nearby healthy tissue. These treatments include brachytherapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and radiosurgery. Read the rest of this entry »

Lung leiomyosarcoma is a rare disease that consists of tumors in the soft tissues of your body, such as the lungs. It is most often malignant; however, there are treatments to remove these tumors.

Surgery
1. Surgery can be used to obtain soft tissue for diagnosis and for removing the actual tumor.

Chemotherapy
2. Chemotherapy consists of many cancer-fighting drugs that attack the cancerous soft tissue cells on the lung.

Radiation
3. Radiation oncologists may apply high-energy radiation beams to the tissues containing sarcoma to try to shrink or kill the cancer cells.

Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
4. This delivers beams of radiation to the cancer cells during surgery, allowing doctors to administer high levels of radiation to the tumor without exposing organs nearby.

Brachytherapy
5. Often used post-surgery, brachytherapy allows for a higher than normal dose of radiation to be placed near the tumor. The radiation source is placed within the body near the tumor or within a body cavity and may be permanently left in place

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