Treating brain tumours

When your doctor gives you a brain tumour diagnosis, they will often tell you what the next step will be in terms of treatment. In many cases treatment might even begin on the same day as a brain tumour diagnosis, leaving you little or no time to prepare for what you will go through. The information we provide is aimed at preparing you for every stage of your, or your child’s treatment.

Conventional treatments

Child treatments

Information about different brain tumour treatments available for children.

About child treatments

Adult treatments

Information about different brain tumour treatments available for adults.

Treatments for adults

Complementary treatments

Therapies used alongside conventional treatments to help manage side-effects.

Non-conventional treatments

At some point, all treatments are experimental and we cannot always tell initially which will become mainstream, standard treatments. When you, or someone you love, is diagnosed with a brain tumour, you may find yourself searching for information about anything which might help, and which might become one of these new, hopefully more effective treatments.

However, whilst some information is on websites where content is evidence-based and fact checked by experts in the field (and also by patients/carers with experience of brain tumours), much of the information out there can just be people’s opinions, without any scientific evidence, or which only have anecdotal evidence. It is tempting to be swayed by anything which appears to offer some hope and/or which aligns with your own feelings, but these can be misleading and may even cause harm. Others may be possible to take/use without affecting your standard treatment, particularly if you discuss how to use/take them with your healthcare team.