Brain cancer care at Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic specialists are respected for their expertise and experience caring for people with brain tumors.
Your Mayo Clinic care team
At Mayo Clinic, specialists within the Brain Tumor Program work together to provide comprehensive care for people with brain tumors. Your care team might include neuro-oncologists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, oncologists, radiation oncologists, pathologists and radiologists. This means that you're not getting just one opinion. You benefit from the knowledge and experience of each specialist.
Close collaboration enables the team to have your test results available quickly and to coordinate scheduling your appointments. Evaluation and treatment that might take months elsewhere can typically be done in only a matter of days at Mayo Clinic.
Advanced diagnosis and treatment
Doctors at Mayo Clinic have access to the latest imaging technology to make an accurate diagnosis and plan treatment. That includes the use of fluorescence-guided imagery, which helps surgeons see cancer more clearly during surgery. FGS uses glowing dyes that help surgeons find and remove tumors more accurately. These dyes make the surgical area light up, which helps surgeons see the difference between cancer cells and healthy tissue. This process can make surgery safer and more effective and lessen the need for more surgeries.
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 brain tumor. These include:
Nationally recognized expertise
Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center meets the strict standards for a U.S. National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. These standards recognize scientific excellence and a multispecialty approach focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Mayo Clinic participates in the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. This organization brings together scientists throughout the U.S. and Canada. They work together to conduct clinical trials and reduce the impact of cancer.
Expertise and rankings
Mayo Clinic specialists are widely respected for their expertise and experience in caring for people with brain tumors.
- Experience caring for many people with brain tumors. The Brain Tumor Program brings together many specialists to provide comprehensive care for people with brain tumors. Mayo Clinic brain tumor specialists care for many people.
- Skilled neurosurgeons who perform many procedures every year. If surgery is the most appropriate treatment, you want to be in the hands of experienced surgeons who perform these operations frequently. Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons are skilled and experienced surgeons. They use the latest technological advances available to them, including computer-assisted brain surgery, intraoperative MRI, awake brain surgery and lasers.
- Leadership in brain tumor research. With the goal of seeking new knowledge and improving the reliability, comfort and cost of care, Mayo Clinic doctors continually study new diagnostic and treatment options through clinical trials. At Mayo Clinic, scientists and medical researchers are investigating the causes of brain tumors and are aggressively developing new treatments.
Mayo Clinic en Rochester (Minnesota), Mayo Clinic en Jacksonville (Florida), y Mayo Clinic en Phoenix y Scottsdale (Arizona), se encuentran entre los mejores hospitales especializados en neurología, neurocirugía y oncología, según la clasificación de U.S. News & World Report. De acuerdo con la selección de los Mejores Hospitales Pediátricos de U.S. News & World Report para 2024-2025, el Centro Pediátrico de Mayo Clinic en Rochester está clasificado como el hospital n.º 1 en Minnesota y en la región de los cinco estados de Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota del Norte, Dakota del Sur y Wisconsin. Con el énfasis puesto en la atención médica colaborativa, los especialistas interactúan muy estrechamente con sus colegas en todas las sedes.
Obtén más información sobre la experiencia y las clasificaciones de los departamentos de neurología y neurocirugía de Mayo Clinic.
Sedes, viaje y alojamiento
Mayo Clinic tiene importantes instalaciones en Phoenix y Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; y Rochester, Minnesota. El Sistema de Salud de Mayo Clinic tiene docenas de instalaciones en diversos estados.
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Costos y seguro de salud
Mayo Clinic trabaja con cientos de compañías de seguros y es un proveedor de atención médica de la red para millones de personas.
En la mayoría de los casos, Mayo Clinic no requiere la remisión de un médico. Algunas compañías de seguros requieren remisiones o pueden tener requisitos adicionales para determinada atención médica. Todas las citas médicas se priorizan en función de la necesidad médica.
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