Craniopharyngioma medical therapy
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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