Can pituitary tumors be cured in the early stages?

Pituitary tumors often occur in young and middle-aged people, and are slightly more common in men than in women. They seriously affect the patient's life and work ability, and even affect the patient's fertility. Once there are early symptoms of pituitary tumors, you must go to a regular hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time. Therefore, many patients are concerned about whether pituitary tumors can be cured in the early stage?

Once you have a pituitary tumor, there is no need to panic. The development of modern medicine can safely remove this "time bomb" and allow patients to resume normal life. Early treatment can cure it. There are many ways to treat pituitary tumors, and surgery is the first choice. For those who are not suitable for or unwilling to undergo surgery, targeted drug therapy or gamma knife treatment can also be used. The key to the effectiveness of treatment is early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment. Therefore, it is recommended that patients and friends who have the above symptoms should go to a regular hospital for scientific examination in time, obtain an accurate diagnosis, and carry out targeted treatment. Do not believe in the false advertisements of the so-called "specialist clinics" on the street, and do not take any tonic medicine at will. Otherwise, not only will you spend money to cure the disease, but you may also delay the disease and affect your health. Pituitary tumors are common benign tumors with an incidence rate of one in 100,000. What are the treatments for pituitary tumors? The specific methods of pituitary tumor surgery are generally divided into two categories: craniotomy and transsphenoidal approach. Transsphenoidal surgery is a method of not opening the skull, but directly reaching the pituitary tumor from the nasal cavity or under the lips, through an anatomical structure called the "sphenoid sinus" below the pituitary gland. Compared with craniotomy, it has the advantages of direct tumor exposure, no need to shave the hair or open the skull (cover), no change in the craniofacial appearance, less trauma and risk, good efficacy, and high cure rate. It is currently the preferred procedure used by most experts.

For the treatment of pituitary tumors, simply being able to perform transsphenoidal surgery is only the first step. Due to the particularity and complexity of pituitary tumors, there are many related professional issues involved. Therefore, choosing a large medical institution with a good reputation and a doctor who has specialized in pituitary tumors for treatment can ensure the best possible treatment effect.

Drug therapy has been a rapidly developing field in recent years, especially for hormone-secreting tumors, especially prolactinomas. With the popularity of bromocriptine, the price of the drug has dropped, and the side effects are getting fewer and fewer, 70% to 80% of our prolactinomas can now be treated with drugs, and even with lifelong drug treatment. For many large prolactinomas, huge prolactinomas, patients who are not suitable for surgery can also be treated with drugs first.

In the early treatment of pituitary tumors, most non-functional pituitary microadenomas do not choose to be treated, even if there is a tumor, but the first choice for non-functional macroadenomas is surgery. In addition, there are some drug treatments. Pituitary adenomas may also be accompanied by some complications. The acromegaly patients mentioned above may also have heart disease or even heart failure. Therefore, timely treatment is necessary to cure it.