The best treatment for pituitary tumors

Pituitary tumor is a tumor that grows in the brain. Most people are often very scared and terrified when they hear about tumors in the brain. In fact, the incidence of pituitary tumors varies due to gender differences. However, the incidence of females suffering from pituitary tumors is usually greater than that of males. Pituitary tumor is a very serious disease that will seriously affect the patient's physical health and daily life. What is the best treatment for pituitary tumors?

Best treatment for pituitary tumors

A pituitary tumor is a tumor that occurs on the pituitary gland, also called a pituitary adenoma. It is a common neuroendocrine tumor. Fortunately, the vast majority of pituitary adenomas are benign tumors. Because the pituitary gland plays a very important role in the endocrine system, it regulates the levels of many hormones in the human body by secreting many trophic hormones. Therefore, if there is an abnormality in the pituitary gland, it will cause changes in the hormones secreted by the pituitary gland, which will also affect the synthesis and function of many hormones in the body. If it affects the level of sex hormones, it will affect the reproductive function. However, some pituitary tumors are non-functional. If you want to know what kind of pituitary tumor you have, you must determine it through examination. Therefore, it is very serious for patients with pituitary tumors.

1. Drug treatment is widely used because of its wide application range. The treatment features rapid absorption by the human body, with most of the drug entering the brain. However, relatively speaking, recurrence of hyperprolactinemia and increase in tumor size may occur after drug discontinuation, so long-term medication is necessary and cannot be discontinued.

2. Surgical treatment is divided into craniotomy and transsphenoidal surgery. One is to remove the tumor through the subfrontal passage, and the other is to reach the pituitary tumor directly through the nasal passage. Due to the complexity of the surgical operation, high technical difficulty, high risk, residual tumor tissue, and high recurrence rate, the treatment cannot be repeated.

3. CyberKnife treatment. CyberKnife is a device that uses real-time image-guided technology. During treatment, the body's skeletal structure is used as a system for target orientation and beam correction. During the "operation", it can track the patient's breathing in real time to dynamically irradiate lesions in the body. It is a powerful radiosurgery tool. Image-guided technology includes two sets of diagonal (90-degree cross-X-ray) X-ray image developers, which detect the displacement of the target area on the X-ray image in real time during the "surgery", and dynamically irradiate the chest and abdominal tumors that move with breathing, and perform real-time compensation and correction to ensure the accuracy of the "surgery". This allows the radiation to be completely irradiated on the tumor without harming other surrounding tissues and structures, thus protecting normal tissues. Therefore, patients do not have any abnormal reactions after treatment and have fewer side effects.