Brain Tumor & Brain Cancer Treatment

Why choose UCLA Health for brain cancer care?

我们的脑肿瘤中心专家每年通过皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康约翰逊综合癌症中心(JCCC)为800多名患者提供护理。. 国家癌症研究所指定JCCC和皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康脑肿瘤中心为全国仅有的六个脑癌专业卓越研究项目(SPORE)之一.

At our Brain Tumor Center, you'll find:

Expertise in brain cancer: 我们世界级的神经胶质瘤专家一直名列全国顶尖, skull base tumor and pituitary specialists. Our specialists treat tumors previously considered inoperable.

Compassionate, collaborative care: 我们与您和您的家人合作选择治疗方案，以获得良好的结果并最大限度地提高您的生活质量.

Access to the latest research and treatments: As a SPORE-designated center, we are revolutionizing brain tumor care. 我们为患者提供参加最新脑肿瘤临床试验的机会.

Convenient locations: 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康中心在大洛杉矶地区的多个地点提供脑癌服务. This means you can receive the highest quality care close to home.

Our services

皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校医疗中心提供最先进的诊断成像，因此我们可以仔细计划您的治疗. Our services include:

• Brain mapping: 由皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康中心的专家开发的大脑地图是外科医生的路线图. 这项创新技术帮助我们的团队在手术中避免或尽量减少对大脑关键功能区域的干扰.
• Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI): 这种无创成像测试为外科医生提供了关于大脑关键区域如何连接的信息.
• Functional MRI (fMRI): 这种测试检测的是由运动或语言激活的大脑区域的血流变化. fMRI数据帮助我们的医生制定手术计划，以避免大脑控制关键功能的区域，如移动和说话.
• Imaging analysis: 我们先进的团队提供无与伦比的成像分析，以确定肿瘤的生长模式.
• Image fusion: This technique uses images from fMRI, DTS, MRS and PET to create a 3D map of the brain for use during surgery.

Brain tumors we treat

Our leading experts treat more than 30 types of brain tumors. The most common tumors we treat include:

Benign brain tumors

Benign brain tumors are noncancerous and don't spread to other tissues. Benign tumors we treat include:

• Neurofibromatosis type 2 tumor: Benign tumor that grows on the eighth cranial nerve. 这条神经将平衡和声音信号从内耳传递到大脑. These tumors result from a genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis.
• Pituitary adenoma: A slow-growing brain tumor that is often benign. 垂体腺瘤会引起激素的显著变化，扰乱身体的基本功能.
• Skull base tumor: 一种罕见的肿瘤，形成于大脑下方或颅骨底部. While skull base tumors are often benign, 由于它们位于神经和血管附近，可能会导致危及生命的问题.
• Schwannoma: Benign tumor that grows on the spinal and peripheral nerves. These tumors result from a genetic disorder called schwannomatosis.

Malignant brain tumors

Malignant brain tumors are cancerous. They can invade surrounding tissues and spread to other organs. Cancerous tumors we treat include:

• Glioma: One of the most common types of brain tumor. 神经胶质瘤生长在大脑的星形神经胶质细胞中，这种细胞支持神经功能.
• Astrocytoma: A tumor that starts in the astrocyte, a star-shaped glial cell that forms supportive tissues in brain.
• Meningioma: 脑膜:一种生长缓慢的肿瘤，形成于脑膜，脑膜是覆盖大脑和脊柱的一层组织.
• Metastatic brain tumor: 一种从身体其他部位开始并扩散到大脑的癌变生长.

Brain tumor treatments we offer

我们的肿瘤学家为患者提供挽救生命的治疗，包括:

Nonsurgical brain tumor treatments

Doctors can treat some brain tumors without surgery. Treatments include:

• Chemotherapy: A combination of medications used to kill cancer cells. Through genetic testing and innovative delivery methods, 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校医疗中心为脑肿瘤患者提供个性化的化疗方案.
• Radiation therapy: For more aggressive tumors, 我们的放射肿瘤学家瞄准并杀死高水平的恶性细胞 of radiation.
• Targeted therapy: 攻击脑癌细胞的特定部位或功能，或增强身体对抗肿瘤细胞的自然能力的疗法.
• Clinical trials: 从个性化癌症疫苗到先进的胶质母细胞瘤药物, 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康中心的脑肿瘤中心发现并开发了首个针对多种脑癌的治疗方法.

Brain tumor surgery

As one of the country's top-ranked neurosurgery programs, we safely remove tumors once considered inoperable. Our neurosurgeons perform over 500 surgeries per year. We offer:

Minimally invasive neurosurgery

对于某些肿瘤，我们的神经外科医生不需要打开颅骨就可以切除脑癌. Minimally invasive brain tumor surgery may include:

• Stereotactic laser ablation: A procedure that destroys a tumor with laser energy. Doctors use MRI to guide the laser to the correct location. 这种治疗方法对于传统手术技术无法触及的肿瘤是理想的.
• Endoscopic surgery: Surgery that uses a flexible tube (endoscope) with a light, camera and special instruments to access a tumor. 我们通常通过鼻子插入检查镜来切除垂体瘤.
• Keyhole craniotomy: 通过这种内窥镜手术，外科医生在眉毛上开一个锁眼状的切口. 然后他们切除脑垂体肿瘤或其他靠近大脑前部的肿瘤.

Advanced neurosurgery

Sometimes our surgeons must open the skull to access brain tumors. 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校医疗中心的神经外科医生是全国最有经验的. 我们可以成功地对以前认为无法手术的肿瘤进行手术.

We pioneered the awake craniotomy. If a tumor is located in a critical function area, surgeons will keep the patient awake during surgery. Awake craniotomy helps our experts 通过让患者在手术中对刺激做出反应，避免大脑的关键功能区域.

Our expert team

我们的团队包括脑肿瘤和脑癌治疗领域最优秀、最聪明的专家. 来自不同专业的医生作为一个团队一起工作，以更有效地提供护理.

Contact us

Call  888-662-8252 to request an appointment with a brain tumor specialist at UCLA Health.