Diffuse midline glioma care at Mayo Clinic
Your Mayo Clinic care team
Mayo Clinic specialists are respected for their expertise and experience caring for people with brain tumors, including those with all types of glioma.
At Mayo Clinic, specialists within the Brain Tumor Program work together to provide comprehensive care for people with diffuse midline glioma. Your care team might include neuro-oncologists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, neuropathologists and radiologists.
Having all of this subspecialized expertise in a single place, focused on you, means that you're not just getting one opinion. Your care is discussed among the team, your test results are available quickly, appointments are scheduled in coordination and the most highly specialized brain tumor experts in the world are all working together to determine what's best for you.
Mayo Clinic also provides expert care for children with brain tumors. Our pediatric neuro-oncologists work with a team of specialists to diagnose and treat pediatric brain tumors and provide children with the personalized treatment they require.
What might take months to accomplish elsewhere can typically be done in only a matter of days at Mayo Clinic.
Advanced diagnosis and treatment
Accurate diagnosis is critical for providing appropriate treatment for each person. Once you start down a treatment path, it may not be possible to change therapies. With brain tumor experts focused on glioma care, Mayo Clinic care teams can make accurate diagnoses and recommend the right treatments from the start.
Doctors at Mayo Clinic have access to the latest imaging technology to make an accurate diagnosis and plan treatment. This includes advanced types of MRI, such as functional MRI, perfusion MRI and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. There's a long history of Mayo Clinic scientists developing cutting-edge technologies for patient care.
Mayo Clinic neuropathologists are skilled in analyzing brain tumor tissue in the lab to make an accurate diagnosis. They analyze many tissue samples every year and have access to the latest in lab technology. Neuropathologists at Mayo Clinic have experience in diagnosing all types of brain tumors, including very rare types. Getting an accurate diagnosis helps your healthcare team create the most effective treatment plan for you.
Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons use the latest operative techniques to treat diffuse midline glioma. These techniques increase the amount of the glioma that can be safely removed during surgery while reducing the risk to healthy tissue. Using these advanced approaches to surgery improves outcomes and increases quality of life after surgery.
At Mayo Clinic, you have access to a full range of treatment options. This includes many innovative types of radiation therapy that allow doctors to deliver radiation directly to the DMG. These include:
Expertise and rankings
Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center meets strict standards for a National Cancer Institute comprehensive cancer center. These standards recognize scientific excellence and a multispecialty approach focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
A Mayo Clinic doctor serves as a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's Central Nervous System Cancers Panel. The panel crafts the guidelines for the care of people with brain tumors. Oncologists and surgeons worldwide refer to these guidelines when providing patient care.
Mayo Clinic is part of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, a group of scientists throughout the U.S. and Canada who work together to conduct clinical trials and reduce the impact of cancer.
Nationally recognized expertise
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, ranks among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery and for cancer in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Mayo Clinic Children's in Rochester is ranked the No. 1 hospital in Minnesota, and the five-state region of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2024–2025 "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings. With the emphasis on collaborative care, specialists interact very closely with their colleagues across all sites.