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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Patients with craniopharyngioma have many treatment options. The selection depends on the size, location of the tumor. The options are surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of these methods.

Medical Therapy

For treatment purposes, patients are grouped as having newly diagnosed or recurrent disease.^[1]

Newly diagnosed childhood craniopharyngioma

Radical surgery with or without radiation therapy
Subtotal resection with radiation therapy
Primary cyst drainage with or without radiation therapy

Recurrent childhood craniopharyngioma

Surgery
Radiation therapy, including radiosurgery
Intracavitary instillation of radioactive P-32, bleomycin, or interferon-alpha, for those with cystic recurrences
Systemic interferon

References

↑ Rx of Craniopharyngioma. Cancer gov. http://www.cancer.gov/types/brain/hp/child-cranio-treatment-pdq#link/_40_toc

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[1] Rx of Craniopharyngioma. Cancer gov. http://www.cancer.gov/types/brain/hp/child-cranio-treatment-pdq#link/_40_toc

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 ====Newly diagnosed childhood craniopharyngioma====
-Radical surgery with or without radiation therapy
+*Radical surgery with or without radiation therapy
+*Subtotal resection with radiation therapy
+*Primary cyst drainage with or without radiation therapy
-Subtotal resection with radiation therapy
+====Recurrent childhood craniopharyngioma====
+*Surgery
-Primary cyst drainage with or without radiation therapy
+*Radiation therapy, including radiosurgery
+*Intracavitary instillation of radioactive P-32, bleomycin, or interferon-alpha, for those with cystic recurrences
-Recurrent childhood craniopharyngioma
+*Systemic interferon
-Surgery
-Radiation therapy, including radiosurgery
-Intracavitary instillation of radioactive P-32, bleomycin, or interferon-alpha, for those with cystic recurrences
-Systemic interferon
 ==References==