How to cure pituitary tumor

How to cure pituitary tumors? There are many patients suffering from pituitary tumors, but they do not know how to cure them. They are also worried that the condition will become more serious if they are not treated, because they think that tumors are very serious diseases and may be life-threatening. So, let us understand how to cure pituitary tumors.

Let’s learn how to cure pituitary tumors:

1. Surgical treatment: mainly includes craniotomy and transsphenoidal surgery. Transnasal endoscopic surgery is safer than craniotomy. Tongren Hospital Neurosurgery has performed many cases and has rich experience. Surgical treatment is the most effective and thorough treatment method.

2. Radiotherapy: Conventional radiotherapy has a certain effect on pituitary adenoma. It can only control the development of the tumor, sometimes shrink the tumor, and improve the visual field, but it cannot cure it fundamentally; only head gamma knife treatment can cure pituitary tumors. Gamma knife treatment of pituitary adenoma has a definite effect, less pain, and mild reaction. The tumor will gradually shrink six months after treatment, and abnormal hormone changes will gradually return to normal. Gamma knife is non-invasive and is the preferred treatment for smaller tumors.

3. Drug treatment: Bromocriptine is a semi-synthetic ergotamine alkaloid that can stimulate the dopamine receptors of pituitary cells to reduce the effect of prolactin in the blood. Taking bromocriptine can shrink prolactin adenoma, restore menstruation and ovulation, and inhibit pathological galactorrhea, but bromocriptine cannot fundamentally cure prolactin adenoma. After stopping the drug, it can continue to grow and symptoms will reappear. In addition, bromocriptine can also alleviate symptoms of growth hormone cell adenoma, but the dosage is large and the efficacy is poor.

The above are the treatment methods. If you follow the doctor's method and receive timely treatment, the disease should definitely be cured. Don't delay the treatment.