Inoperable Brain Tumor Options - Mayo Clinic

When faced with a diagnosis of an inoperable brain tumor, patients benefit from second opinions. Visit mayocl.in/2m7jlnG to request an appointment or discuss your inoperable brain tumor diagnosis.
"When you are told that you have an inoperable brain tumor, your responsibility as a patient is always to question that diagnosis and seek a higher level of expertise," says Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M.D., a neurosurgeon at Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Quinones-Hinojosa, Terence (Terry) C. Burns, M.D., Ph.D., and David J. Daniels, M.D., Ph.D., discuss the risks, benefits and alternatives of operating to treat complex brain cancer.
"It's important to know that an inoperable brain tumor may be inoperable by the center or the clinician who is evaluating you at that time," says Dr. Burns. "But it doesn't necessarily mean that there is no one in the world who has the ability to safely operate on that tumor."
A team-based assessment from Mayo Clinic involves multiple experts with expertise in any given tumor type working with the patient to understand and weigh all of the factors for that individual, including quality-of-life factors such as language and movement.
Mayo Clinic provides team-based care to provide the best treatment for patients with brain tumors. By seeing a large number of even the rarest tumors, Mayo Clinic is able to use the latest surgical techniques, imaging, chemotherapy, radiation and clinical trials to give the best chance for patients with brain cancer.