Cost of Gliomas in India

A Glioma is a brain tumor made up of astrocytes, which are glial cells that provide support for the neurons of the brain. Gliomas are the most common type of brain tumors.

There are three major types of Gliomas:

• Astrocytomas
• Ependymomas
• Oligodendrogliomas

May include:

• Headache
• Seizures
• Confusion
• Weakness
• Numbness of a side or a part of the body
• Imbalance
• In-coordination
• Memory impairment
• Changes in mood
• Blurred, double vision; loss of vision

May include:

• CT scan
• MRI scan
• Resection
• PET scan
• Biopsy

May include:

Surgery: Typically a keyhole craniotomy is performed followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Surgical techniques used are:

Neurophysiological monitoring

Standard Motor Mapping

Advanced neuro-imaging

Awake speech and motor mapping

Neuro-navigation technology

Radiation Therapy: Effective treatment for most gliomas. Can be administered to the whole brain, or focused on a specific region through radiosurgery using high-energy beams, such as X-rays or protons, to kill tumor cells. Radiation therapy for glioma comes from a machine outside your body.

Options include:

• Using computers to pinpoint delivery of radiation treatment to the exact location of the brain tumor.
• Using protons — the positive parts of atoms — rather than X-rays as the source of radiation.
• Using multiple beams of radiation to give a highly focused form of radiation treatment.
• Chemotherapy: Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill tumor cells. Chemotherapy drugs can be taken in pill form or injected into a vein. It is used