Is radiotherapy useful for advanced brain cancer?

Is radiotherapy useful for advanced brain cancer?

1. Late-stage intracranial malignancies often present with symptoms of severe intracranial pressure increase, leading to headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, impaired consciousness, and even coma. If you can tolerate surgery, you can have it removed surgically.

2. If surgery is not possible, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, etc. can be used for treatment. Most brain cancer patients may choose surgery to directly remove the lesion. After surgery, radiotherapy should be selected as an auxiliary treatment based on the patient's own situation and the severity of the disease.

3. The preferred treatment for brain cancer is local radiotherapy after surgery.

What should patients who undergo chemotherapy after brain tumor surgery pay attention to?

Patients who undergo chemotherapy after brain tumor surgery should first pay attention to protecting blood vessels. Chemotherapy drugs infiltrate into blood vessels and cause serious adverse reactions. At the same time, chemotherapy drugs kill tumor cells and cause varying degrees of damage to normal tissues. Strengthen nutrition, promote tissue repair, give high-protein and high-vitamin foods, and use some drugs to improve the body's immunity.

Children's intracranial malignant tumors, mainly including gliomas, can be cured if early surgery is performed as promptly as possible. If they cannot be completely removed or the glioma is high-level, they can be treated with chemotherapy and other methods.

Chemotherapy is usually not needed after surgery for benign brain tumors in children.