Can pituitary tumors be completely cured?

Pituitary tumor is a disease that has a great impact on our health. Once the disease develops malignantly, it will endanger life. Therefore, many people are concerned about the cure rate of brain tumors. The most concerned issue is whether pituitary tumors can be completely cured. Now let me share with you the question of whether pituitary tumors can be completely cured!

If you want to know whether pituitary tumors can be completely cured, you should first understand that the main treatments for pituitary tumors are drug therapy and surgical treatment. The specific treatment should be selected according to the patient's condition. Let's take a look:

1. Drug treatment has been a rapidly developing field in recent years, especially for hormone-secreting tumors, especially prolactinomas. Now, 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 drugs. For many large prolactinomas, huge prolactinomas, patients who are not suitable for surgery can also be treated with drugs first.

2 The specific methods of pituitary tumor surgery are generally divided into two categories: craniotomy and transsphenoidal approach. Transsphenoidal surgery is to reach the pituitary tumor directly from the nasal cavity or under the lips through an anatomical structure called the "sphenoid sinus" below the pituitary gland without opening the skull. 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 appearance of the craniofacial face, less trauma and risk, good efficacy, and high cure rate. It is currently the preferred surgical 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.

The above are the treatment means and methods for pituitary tumors. So, can pituitary tumors be completely cured? This depends on the patient's attitude towards the disease. As long as the patient actively cooperates with the doctor's treatment, ensures to follow the precautions said by the doctor, strengthens physical exercise to enhance one's physical fitness, improves resistance to disease, enhances immune function, prevents viral infection, reduces and avoids exposure to radioactive radiation, especially during the period of bone development in adolescents, eliminates the patient's fear, anxiety, and even despair, the chance of completely curing the pituitary tumor is very high.