After treatment

You may take some time to recover after treatment for a brain tumour. You might also find you need to get used to coping with different side effects.

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Making treatment decisions


Monitoring brain tumours

This may be an option for some people with low-grade or benign tumours. It means choosing to wait and see if the tumour grows and causes symptoms, or if your symptoms get worse before you have treatment.


You might be offered surgery to remove all or part of your brain tumour.


Radiotherapy targets cancer cells in a specific area of the body.


Chemotherapy uses drugs to treat cancer. It can be given in different ways and will be carefully planned.

Supportive and other treatments

Your specialist may give you steroids or anticonvulsants to deal with your symptoms. Always take your medication as prescribed.

Clinical trials
