How To Treat Pineoblastoma

Chemotherapy

Pineoblastoma patients most likely will require at least one round of chemotherapy, which is the use of one or more potent drugs to kill or stop the growth of malignant cells. Depending on the circumstances of each patient, chemotherapy may be used independently of, or before or following resection surgery. It may also be used in some patients to delay treatment with the use of radiation therapy. Chemotherapy works by attacking and damaging any cells within the body that are in the process of duplicating. Malignant cells have a characteristic of multiplying much quicker than normal healthy cells, so chemotherapy is efficient at wiping out most cancerous cells in the body. Chemotherapy is known to be extremely effective at treating cancer, but the mechanism of how it works causes severe side effects. It also kills off any healthy noncancerous cells throughout the body that are in the process of multiplying. It is the widespread cellular damage chemotherapy inflicts on healthy tissues that causes its extreme adverse side effects.

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