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Overview
Your doctor will recommend treatment depending on the type and location of the tumor. Before treatment begins, it's important to reduce the pressure within the skull. Steroid medications are often used to do this.
The main treatments for brain tumor are surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy alone or in combination. New surgical and radiation techniques that lessen the risk and discomfort associated with traditional brain surgery may be available. These procedures might allow patients with primary brain tumors to avoid or postpone traditional surgery and often produce similar results. Treatment for children may be different from treatment for adults. Some of the treatments that are tolerated by an adult's brain can prevent normal development of a child's brain.
The chance of success depends on the type of brain tumor and the patient's general health.
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