Astrocytoma care at Mayo Clinic
Your Mayo Clinic care team
At Mayo Clinic, top-ranked doctors and astrocytoma specialists from the Brain Tumor Program work together to provide you with comprehensive, world-renowned care. Your team members may include:
- Neuro-oncologists.
- Neuroradiologists.
- Neuropathologists.
- Neurosurgeons.
- Medical oncologists.
- Radiation oncologists.
- Neurologists.
- Rehabilitation specialists.
- Other specialists, as needed.
Mayo Clinic also provides expert care for children with astrocytoma. 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 need.
Having all 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. The most highly specialized brain tumor experts in the world are all working together to determine what's best for you.
What might take months to accomplish elsewhere can typically be done in a matter of days at Mayo Clinic.
Advanced diagnosis and treatment
People who seek care for astrocytoma at Mayo Clinic have access to the most advanced imaging and diagnostic tools available. There's a long history of Mayo Clinic scientists developing those cutting-edge technologies for patient care.
Mayo Clinic neuropathologists are skilled in analyzing astrocytoma and other 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 astrocytoma. Getting an accurate diagnosis helps your healthcare team create the most effective treatment plan for you.
Innovation by Mayo Clinic doctors and scientists led to the development of magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) and related slip interface imaging. This advanced imaging technique allows physicians to better prepare for brain tumor removal surgery. The technology provides vital information about the firmness and adhesion of brain tumors. This information allows the multidisciplinary care team to determine the optimal method and timing for surgery to reduce the risk of potential complications or follow-up surgeries.
Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons perform many astrocytoma and other brain tumor surgeries each year using the latest technologies and tools available to them, including:
Research
With state-of-the-art research and laboratory facilities, Mayo Clinic experts are constantly seeking a greater understanding of brain tumors to improve patient care. A variety of clinical trials and other studies of tumor biology, neuropathology and epidemiology may be available to you as part of your astrocytoma treatment at Mayo Clinic.
Nationally recognized brain tumor expertise and rankings
Mayo Clinic astrocytoma experts provide comprehensive care for thousands of adults and children with common or rare brain tumors each year.
- Collaboration. The top-ranked specialists in the Brain Tumor Program at Mayo Clinic work together with other experts to deliver the most appropriate treatment for each person. Your brain tumor treatment team may involve neuroradiologists, neuropathologists, neurosurgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, neurologists, rehabilitation specialists and other specialists as needed.
- The latest techniques and technology. Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons perform many brain tumor surgeries each year using the latest technological advances available to them. These include computer-assisted brain surgery, intraoperative MRI, awake brain surgery and lasers.
- Comprehensive cancer center. 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.
- Highly respected expertise. 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 both nationally and internationally refer to these guidelines when providing patient care.
- Involvement in international research networks. 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.
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