Broad expertise treating brain, spine and peripheral nerve tumors for both adults and children
Whether cancerous or noncancerous, brain, spine or peripheral nerve tumors can threaten life and quality of life. Penn State Health offers patients all available treatment options, so that together, we can create the right plan for you.
Expertise:
- Benign brain tumors
- Malignant brain tumors
- Spine tumors
- Peripheral nerve tumors
- Pituitary tumors
- Skull base tumors
Treatments:
- Surgery
- Awake functional mapping
- Minimally invasive techniques
- Advanced neuroimaging
- Endoscopic endonasal approaches
- Chemotherapy
- Intrathecal (IT) chemotherapy
- Optune® – Tumor Treating Fields
- Radiation
- Gamma Knife radiosurgery
- Laser ablation
- Vaccine and immunotherapy
- STAR™ Tumor Ablation System