Patient and Family Education: For people with brain and spinal cord cancers
These resources will give you information about your treatment:
- Spine stereotactic body radiation therapy treatment (SBRT)
- Chemoradiation: For people with brain tumours
What types of tumours do we treat within the central nervous system cancer care group?
- Malignant (high grade) primary brain tumours including:
- Glioblastoma multiforme
- Anaplastic glioma (oligodendroglioma, astrocytoma, mixed)
- Medulloblastoma
- Malignant meningioma
- Malignant secondary or metastatic brain tumours
- Low grade primary brain tumours:
- Low grade glioma (astrocytoma, oligodedroglioma, mixed)
- Low grade glioma (astrocytoma, oligodedroglioma, mixed)
- Benign brain tumours:
- Benign meningioma
- Acoustic neuroma
- Pituitary adenom
- Spine tumours:
- Spine metastases
- Spine ependymoma
- Spine glioma
Are there any new techniques?
For more information about brain and spinal cord cancers from trusted resources:
- Intensity modulated radiation therapy
- Tomotherapy
- Stereotactic radiosurgery
- Stereotactic radiation therapy
Where to find more information and support
Brain and spinal tumours (Canadian Cancer Society)
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada
Brain & Central Nervous System Cancer (BC Cancer Agency)
Odette Patient and Family Education
Other helpful supports and services:
Odette Patient and Family Support
Sunnybrook Parking and Transportation Services
Annual Crolla Day Lectureship
The Crolla Brain Tumour Research Unit at Sunnybrook Hospital, chaired by Dr. James Perry, has been successful in enabling enhancements in clinical care. The generous Crolla family donation has been instrumental in enabling research initiatives, which hopefully will improve the duration and quality of life in our central nervous system patients.
This lecture, usually held every October during Brain Tumour Awareness Month, is available to patients, their caregivers and health professionals.
