UCSF Medical Center has one of the largest brain tumor centers in the nation. With recent advances in treatments, the outlook for patients with brain and spinal cord tumors has significantly improved.
The Neuro-Oncology Clinic offers a technique called brain mapping to create a detailed surgical path as well as the Gamma Knife and CyberKnife that deliver high doses of radiation precisely to their targets. Our experts use advanced surgical navigation and interactive image-guided microscopes in addition to brain mapping techniques when removing tumors.
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, which provides a view through the skull, allows our surgeons to get computerized images of the brain while performing surgery. Other new technologies, such as sophisticated 3-dimensional techniques, are used by our radiation oncologists to target tumors more precisely. And new spine tumor treatments, including chemotherapy, tumor vaccines and surgery, mean more hope for the future.
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Neurosurgery
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-7500
Fax: (415) 353-2939
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Neuro-Oncology
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2966
Fax: (415) 353-2167
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