Guide To Diagnosing And Treating Brain Cancer

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy involves the use of intravenous drugs to treat cancerous cells throughout a patient's body. Chemotherapy is used in the treatment of many types of cancer, but it is not as effective on the tumor cells inside of the brain when it is administered traditionally. Fortunately, chemotherapy drugs can be infused directly into a patient's cerebrospinal fluid. This method allows the chemotherapy drugs to reach specific types of brain cancer known to be more aggressive than others. Chemotherapy tends to work better on lymphomas and medulloblastomas that develop in a patient's brain than it does others. This type of chemotherapy administration requires the placement of a ventricular access catheter or device placed into the brain ventricles to allow a pathway for chemotherapy drugs to reach the tissues containing the brain cancer.

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