Stereotactic Radiosurgery  allows precise, focused, high-dose radiation to be delivered to small regions of the brain with minimal exposure to normal tissue.  Jefferson neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists pioneered this procedure, which is considered to be the most significant advance of the last decade in treating brain tumors and spinal tumors.

Surgery for Brain Tumors  today combines three-dimensional, computer-assisted technology with surgical tools to help doctors plan and carry out brain surgery more accurately.

Radiation Therapy for Brain Tumors  may be given by a number of different methods, which, in addition to stereotactic radiosurgery, include whole brain irradiation, conformal radiation (which shapes the pattern of radiation beams to the shape of the tumor, sparing normal tissue), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT, which varies the intesity of the radiation to match each particular part of a tumor) and stereotactic radiation.

Chemotherapy  uses systemic treatment in the form of intravenous injections of anticancer drugs or, less commonly, oral medications to kill cancer cells. It has the ability to reach cancer that may have spread, even microscopically, throughout the body.

Gene Therapy , in which scientists insert a new gene into specific cancer cells, is still in the early research stages but is showing some promise in the treatment of certain types of brain tumors.