My father is 60 years old, he has a brain tumor causes a loss of vision in his left eye, he just can very hardly see the shadows of the objects when he gets them very close to his eye. The doctors said that he has a brain tumor as it appeared after the examining by the MRI. I don't know whether this tumor is in the brain itself or on the optic nerve.
My Question are:
- If this tumor on the optic nerve, is it can be seen by the MRI? and is it can be considered as a brain tumor?
- What that kind of a brain tumor that causes to him such blindness?
- What is the way of treatment to remove that tumor? surgery, radiation or chemotherapy?
- If surgery is the way of treatment, how will it be done, through the eye or in the brain itself?
- If the surgery in the brain, from which side the open will be, front, back or other?
- How succsseful is that operation?
- If the tumor on the optic nerve, the surgery must be done in the brain also or it can be done through the eye?
Thanks for you patience, and please I need early accurate answers for that questions ( even some of them) as I am so worry about my father, thanks again.
Best Regards,
hunny417