St. Luke’s Brain & Spine Tumor Center provides the highest level of individualized
patient-centered care to aggressively treat primary and metastatic tumors of the brain
and spine. The Center gives the patient an opportunity to meet a multidisciplinary team
of doctors from neurosurgery, radiation therapy and medical oncology at one time and
one location.
By bringing together physician expertise in these highly specialized areas, St. Luke’s
offers patients a cohesive, comprehensive, personalized treatment plan tailored to the
each patient's diagnoses and unique needs without the need for the patient to travel to
multiple locations and physicians. Patients benefit from innovative surgical, medical
and radiation oncology treatment approaches and access to the latest clinical trials and
investigational therapies.
A nurse navigator also is present to implement treatment plans and coordinate studies
among the various departments. Her work continues between clinics to keep patients on track
with treatment plans.
The team:
- Dr. Hugh Moulding completed his fellowship in neurosurgical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
- Radiation oncologist Dr. Nimisha Deb and medical oncologist Dr. Neil Belman specialize in treating tumors of the brain and spine.
- Dedicated neuroradiologists evaluate all imaging.
- This expert multidisciplinary team meets weekly to ensure the most appropriate, effective and timely treatments are given.
Types of brain and spinal cord tumors:
- Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is a malignant tumor that accounts for about 60 percent of all primary brain tumors in adults over the age of 50.
- Meningiomas are usually benign tumors that arise from the meninges which are membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. Typically, these tumors are slow growing.
- Acoustic Neuromas are benign tumors of the eighth cranial nerve that can affect hearing, balance and head position.
- Pituitary Adenomas are usually benign tumors that are located next to or within the pituitary gland.
- Cranial extensions of head and neck cancers (originating from cancers of the salivary glands, oral cavity, larynx, pharynx, sinuses and other locations).
- Metastatic tumors can occur when there is spread of disease to the brain or spine from a primary cancer, such as lung cancer, breast cancer or melanoma.
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