Advanced diagnosis and treatment with Mayo Clinic astrocytoma experts.
Astrocytoma expertise, on your side.
At Mayo Clinic, your astrocytoma care team will have the experience and knowledge to make an accurate diagnosis. This is the first step to being able to create a care plan designed just for you by using our access to the latest treatment innovations. You can trust that you’re in good hands, because we have deep experience in this area. Mayo Clinic experts treat more than 7,000 adults and children with brain and central nervous system cancers each year. And with teams that specialize in astrocytomas, we can help.
Collaborative care.
We know that an accurate diagnosis is critical for making appropriate treatment decisions. That’s why we believe in a team-based collaborative approach, where doctors who are skilled and experienced in all glioma treatment options work together to find the most successful patient outcomes. Doctors across Mayo Clinic join skills and become part of your care team, so you will have access to all the necessary expertise.
Innovation hard at work.
Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons have pioneered surgical techniques to help treat astrocytoma, including computer-assisted brain surgery, intraoperative MRI, and awake brain surgery. Through these latest innovations and extensive expertise in treating multiple tumor types, the astrocytoma team at Mayo Clinic provides people the widest range of treatment options available. And with our state-of-the-art research and laboratory facilities, Mayo Clinic experts are constantly seeking new medical knowledge and innovations for people with astrocytomas.
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Why Choose Mayo Clinic Neurology and Neurosurgery
I think Mayo is a truly unique institution and what makes them so special is that they collaborate well, listen to each other and most of all they listen to the needs of the patient. The primary value of Mayo Clinic is the needs of the patient come first and that’s been the primary value of Mayo throughout its 150-year history. We are focused on addressing the needs of our patients first and foremost. That’s what makes Mayo different. It’s the model of care where people are not incentivized with anything but to take good care of patients. It has to begin with listening to them. Fortunately, here at Mayo we are afforded the time necessary to sit down and listen to them, to understand the nature of their symptoms. That part of listening is really, I think, a central core of the clinic. That pervades everything that we do and that is a unique environment to work in. Everybody here is a working unit. And coordination implies, just as it says, physicians interacting with other physicians. More minds are better than one. So when you’re evaluating a patient with a complex neurological problem. We can bring colleagues from many different areas of medicine, expertise across virtually any field. We all each bring different perspectives. And that collective intelligence is something that, I feel, truly unique to Mayo Clinic. I think one of the strongest reasons patients come here is for that coordinated care. We bring a tremendous expertise. Our department of neurosurgery is one of the largest neurosurgical practices in the world. There is nothing that can be done anywhere on the planet that you cannot get here in the neurosurgical realm. All aspects of neurological care is available at the Mayo Clinic. The size, the scale, the infrastructure that supports us here, allows patients to be seen here and have a level of coordinated care that’s difficult to duplicate anywhere else. We’re very proud of our number one ranking in U.S. News and World Report. And it’s something we’ve held many, many times. We are recognized as being among the nation’s very top, the very best in what we do, as neurologists and as neurosurgeons. To see that high ranking is reaffirming for people. That they are doing the right thing. But we don’t rest on our laurels and we continue to try and do better, because our patients really deserve that. Care of patients is about meeting their needs. Research is about meeting their unmet needs. Neurosurgery is one of those rare specialties of medicine that is greatly impacted by new discoveries and new treatments. Research is definitely something that Mayo does very well. We consider research to support the practice by bringing the most cutting-edge treatments and ideas to a patient’s care. If they need surgery, they’re going to have surgery done in a state-of-the-art operating room with the absolute best technology and equipment available. And that makes it much safer for patients. The wedding, or the melding of visual imagery with robotics or other types of tools, works well in what we do. And that team approach, the expertise, the technology which we can apply to the patients to treat them is truthfully why a patient should come here. Because it’s all about the people that are here. We have a group of colleagues who are very dedicated to the ideals of Mayo and to the primary value, which is, the needs of the patient come first. It’s very meaningful to me and my colleagues. Our mission is really to do the best for our patients, and that’s why we stay here at Mayo.