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Glioblastoma care at Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic specialists are respected for their expertise and experience caring for people with brain tumors, including those with glioblastoma.

Your Mayo Clinic care team

At Mayo Clinic, specialists within the Brain Tumor Program work together to provide comprehensive care for people with glioblastoma. 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. This includes advanced types of MRI, such as functional MRI, perfusion MRI and magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons use the latest operative techniques to treat glioblastoma. Examples include:

• Computer-assisted brain surgery.
• Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI).
• Awake brain surgery.
• Laser 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 glioblastoma. These include:

• 3D conformal radiation therapy.
• Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT).
• Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).
• Proton therapy.

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.

الخبرة و مراتب التصنيف

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 with glioblastoma.
• 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 glioblastomas and other brain tumors and are aggressively developing new treatments.

صنَّفت مؤسسة U.S. News & World Report مايو كلينك في مدينة روتشستر بولاية مينيسوتا ومايو كلينك في مدينة جاكسونفيل بولاية فلوريدا ومايو كلينك في مدينة فينيكس/سكوتسديل بولاية أريزونا ضمن أفضل المستشفيات في طب وجراحة الأعصاب وطب السرطان. وصُنّف مركز مايو كلينك للأطفال في مدينة روتشستر على أنه المستشفى رقم 1 في ولاية مينيسوتا وفي منطقة الخمس ولايات التي تتضمن آيوا ومينيسوتا وداكوتا الشمالية وداكوتا الجنوبية وويسكونسن، وذلك وفقًا لتصنيفات "أفضل مستشفيات الأطفال" التي أعدتها مؤسسة U.S. News & World Report لعام 2023–2024. ويتواصل الاختصاصيون عن كثب مع زملائهم في كل المواقع في إطار نهج الرعاية التعاوني.

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