Nervous System Tumors

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Chemotherapy


Chemotherapy is not used for benign tumors and is not used for most malignant brain tumors, which are treated with radiation and/or surgery. The problem with chemotherapy is that it works by interrupting mitosis, the process of cell division. Many brain tumors are already slow-growing, so slowing down the process of their growth and division by chemotherapy does not do much good.

Another problem with using chemotherapy to treat brain tumors is finding or developing drugs th...Read the full article