Growing Brain Tumor

My friend is having brain tumor since she was 16 [now 21]. Is there any treatment other than radiations to stop the growth?

[Dr Rajgopal]

Hi,
Besides radiation and chemotherapy, surgical excision of the tumour is the treatment option for the growing brain tumour. Please consult a neurologist for the treatment. The growing tumour may compress the adjacent brain structures causing complications like blindness, balance problems, loss of co-ordination and a lot of other permanent complications and may be hazardous. Please consult a neurologist at the earliest. Hope this helps you. Take care and regards!  

[caregiver222]

The answer is yes. Non-surgical treatment for such tumors was discovered during the 1920's by Dr. Coley who founded Sloan Kettering, and the treatments were sold during the 1930's by Lily Corp. as the Coley toxins. Approximately 18 percent of such tumors, according to Dr. Coley's studies, would disappear is the body was injected with a sequence of killed bacterial vaccines. Scientific American magazine published several articles on this treatment protocol and attributrf the remission to the fact that TNF (tumor necrosis factor) is generated with every killed bacterial vaccine injection. The theory is that the tumors grow because they are not on the body's "radar screen" and do not elicit a response as being "non-self". Unofrtunately, Coley's work has been forgotten and every year we rediscover the wheel.

[ShugarGirl]

Thanks Alot both of you...I hope this information is helpful to my frend....