What are the common methods for treating glioma

Glioma is the most common type of brain tumor. Patients may experience symptoms such as headaches, vomiting, and visual impairment, which endangers human health and also affects patients' daily lives. So what are the common methods for treating glioma? The editor below will answer for you.

1. Surgical treatment: Surgery for glioma includes total resection and subtotal resection, which can be performed once or multiple times. Since the tumor grows in an invasive manner and has no clear boundary with the brain tissue, it is difficult to completely remove it. Therefore, auxiliary treatment is often required after surgery, such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, etc.

2. Chemotherapy: single drug and combination drug, systemic drug and local drug. In order to increase local drug concentration and reduce systemic toxicity, special drug administration routes can also be used, such as local injection of ADM and MTX through the Ommaya reservoir.

3. Radiotherapy: Radiotherapy for brain glioma should be performed as soon as possible after the general condition recovers after surgery. It mainly includes conventional radiotherapy, x-knife, gamma-knife, proton knife and isotope therapy.

4. Immunotherapy: Immunotherapy for glioma includes active immunization with tumor vaccines, injection of immune RNA into lymph nodes, and application of immunomodulators, which can reduce the reactions of radiotherapy and chemotherapy and enhance immunity.

5. Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment: Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment for brain glioma is generally used as an auxiliary treatment method. It is suitable for patients whose parts have been surgically resected, those who have relapsed after surgery, those who have undergone X-knife, gamma knife, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Different treatment methods are used according to different conditions, and treatment is carried out in stages based on syndrome differentiation and treatment.