What is the chance of cure for pituitary tumors?

We are all familiar with pituitary tumors. In recent years, the incidence rate has been rising, which has seriously endangered our health. After many people suffer from pituitary tumors, the most concerned issue is how likely it is to be cured and whether it will endanger their lives. Now let me share with you the question of how likely it is to be cured of pituitary tumors!

If you want to know the chances of cure of pituitary tumors, you should first understand what methods doctors use to treat pituitary tumors. Let's take a look:

Every day we can see some advertisements about some methods of treating pituitary tumors. Some patients are very blind about the treatment of this disease and don’t know which treatment method is more suitable for them. Below are some treatments for pituitary tumors.

1. Except for prolactinoma, which is generally treated with drugs first, all pituitary tumors, especially macroadenomas and functional tumors, especially those that compress the central nervous system and optic nerve bundle, should consider surgical treatment if drug treatment is ineffective or intolerable. Unless the macroadenoma has extended to the sella turcica and parasellar, it is necessary to consider craniotomy and transfrontal approach to remove the tumor. For tumors in the sella turcica, transsphenoidal microsurgery is generally used to remove microadenomas. The surgical cure rate is 7% to 8%, and the recurrence rate is 5% to 15%. Postoperative complications such as temporary diabetes insipidus, cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, local hematoma, abscess, and infection are low, and the mortality rate is very low.

2. For large adenomas, especially those that develop above or beside the sella turcica, the surgical cure rate is reduced, postoperative complications are increased, diabetes insipidus and hypopituitarism occur more frequently, and the mortality rate is also relatively increased.

The above are the treatment means and methods for pituitary tumors. So how great is the chance of curing pituitary tumors? 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, and eliminates the patient's fear, anxiety, and even despair, the chance of curing pituitary tumors is very high.