Northwestern Medicine Brain and Spine Tumor Care
Top brain and spine tumor experts with you every step of the way.
From diagnosis and treatment to support for patients and families, Northwestern Medicine offers comprehensive services for every type of brain tumor and spine tumor, including rare tumors and metastatic disease. Those services include one of the largest offering of brain tumor clinical trials, which give patients access to therapies that are not yet widely available.
Our patients also have access to expert pathologists to ensure an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan, and internationally renowned neuro-oncologists and brain and spine surgeons through the Lou and Jean Malnati Brain Institute of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
We also offer second opinions for brain and spine tumor, and one of the only brain and spine tumor programs in the country offering patients brain and spine tumor care completely in Spanish.
Brain and Spine Tumor Specialists and Care Centers
Meet the Team
Tumors Treated
- Acoustic Neuroma (Vestibular Schwannoma)
- Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma
- Anaplastic Astrocytoma
- Aneurysmal Bone Cyst (ABC)
- Angiosarcoma
- Astrocytoma
- Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor
- Brain Tumors
- Chondrosarcoma
- Chordoma
- Choroid Plexus Papilloma
- CNS Lymphoma
- Craniopharyngioma
- Dermoid
- Dural Based Tumors
- Ependymoma
- Ewing Sarcoma
- Fibrosarcoma
- Gangliogliomas
- Germinomas
- Giant Cell Tumor
- Glioblastoma
- Glioma
- Hemangioblastoma
- Hemangioma (Atypical Hemangioma)
- Hemangiopericytoma
- Leiomyosarcoma
- Lipoma
- Low Grade Glioma
- Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor (MPNST)
- Medulloblastoma
- Meningioma
- Metastatic Brain Tumors
- Metastatic Spine Tumors
- Myxopapillary Ependymoma
- Nerve Root Tumors
- Neuro Phakomatosis
- Neurofibroma
- Oligodendroglioma
- Osteoblastoma
- Osteoid Osteoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Paraganglioma
- Pineal Tumor
- Pituitary Tumors
- Primary Tumors
- Sarcoma
- Schwannoma
- Skull Base Tumors
- Solitary Fibrous Tumor
- Spinal Cord Tumors
- Subependymoma
- Tumors of Spine
- Von Hippel-Lindau Disease
Treatments
- 3-D Conformal Radiation Therapy
- Chemotherapy
- Clinical Trials
- DaVinci Robotic Surgery®
- En Bloc Resection
- Endoscopic Transcervical Odontoidectomy
- External beam radiation therapy (EBRT)
- Gamma Knife® Radiosurgery
- High-dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Image guided radiation therapy (IGRT)
- Image-Guided Radiotherapy
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy
- Low-Dose Brachytherapy
- Metastatic Treatment
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Tumor Approaches
- Proton Beam Radiation
- Proton Therapy
- Sacrectomy/Sacral Amputation
- Separation Surgery
- Spondylectomy
- Standard external beam radiation therapy (EBRT)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery
- TomoTherapy
- Transmandibular Approaches to the Cervical Spine