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