The team meets regularly to discuss each patient's case. The coordinator continues the delivery of care from team members in these diverse fields of medicine and serves as a liaison between physicians, patients and families. For this treatment, the tumor is removed, and specially treated chemotherapy wafers are placed into the tumor bed. In some cases, a large skin incision and general anesthetic are not the best ways to approach a particular tumor. Doctors may elect to perform a stereotactic biopsy procedure under a local anesthetic.
Patients typically go home the following day.
Later, residual tissue left from this process is naturally absorbed by the body. Surgeons at Allegheny General Hospital have pioneered this experimental treatment of malignant brain tumors. For many brain tumors, surgical treatment alone is not sufficient, Patients harboring such lesions will often be referred for radiation therapy. The Department of Radiation Oncology at Allegheny General Hospital offers one of the widest arrays of treatment options to safely and effectively deal with these particular problems. This is the conventional treatment most often prescribed for brain tumor cases.