Best Hospitals for Brain Cancer treatment in Germany 2024

Treatment of brain cancer at Solingen Center is conducted by doctors of Neurosurgery, Oncology and Radiology Departments. The leading specialists from other German clinics are invited for development of complex treatment and consultations.

Special system of computerized navigation and intraoperative MRI are used for removal of brain tumors. During an operation endoscopic and microsurgical methods are applied for removal of malignant tumors with maximum success rate.

Düsseldorf Clinics Association consists of 4 multidisciplinary hospitals. Physicians at Dusseldorf specialize in oncology, neurology, cardiology, orthopedics, and surgery.

More than 60 professors work in the Association. They head the rating of the best physicians according to Focus magazine, one of the three German most widely circulating titles.

Over 200,000 patients undergo treatment in Düsseldorf Clinics Association annually.

• Asklepios St. Georg cooperates with the Asklepios Tumor Center with over 200 cancer specialists.
• 1,000 patients with brain and neck tumors receive treatment annually at the Asklepios Tumor Center. This makes the center one of the best brain cancer hospitals in the world according to Asklepios data.
• During the surgery on the open skull, doctors apply intraoperative MRI to detect the tumor location. This technique allows removing the tumor maximally and avoid repeated surgery. Only several brain cancer hospitals in Germany have this option.
• Asklepios St. Georg in among top hospitals ranking in Germany according to the Focus magazine version.

Asklepios Klinik Altona is a university hospital of Hamburg, one of the oldest medical facilities in Northern Germany. The medical center belongs to the hospitals’ group of Asklepios Kliniken. Asklepios Altona Hamburg specializes in robotic surgery, gastroenterology, abdominal surgery, neurology, and oncology specialties.

95,000 patients get treatment annually here.

The North Rhine-Westphalia Association includes 5 hospitals located not far from Düsseldorf (Germany).

Doctors of the network conduct treatment in 27 specialties. The strongest are oncology, robotic surgery, orthopedics, cardiology, urology, and gynecology.

The Heart Center of the Association is the largest in Germany. It is the place where pilots of civil aviation undergo heart check-ups.

Each year, more than 100,000 outpatients and 45,000 inpatients are treated in the hospitals of Association.

CDT-WEST is a specialized diagnostic radiology and therapy center in Cologne (Germany).

Specialists conduct health check using the latest CT, MRI, and PET-CT (positron emission tomography) devices.

Radiation therapists carry out such modern techniques as IMRT (intensity-modulated radiotherapy), IGRT (image-guided radiation therapy), DIBH (deep inspiration breath hold radiation therapy). These methods allow treating tumors located close to vital organs safely and effectively.

Patients with brain cancer can get treatment in Bremen-Mitte Clinic which belongs to stretch of Nord Klinik Allianz. 2 special operating theatres are equipped with systems for precise microsurgical operations. A neurosurgeon can control all the movements with these systems during a removal of a tumor. It allows distinguishing on microscopic level healthy tissue from damaged one.

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is German medical institution with a 300-year-old history. Half of Nobel Prize scholars makу their clinical researches right here.

The Clinic is equipped with 6 operating rooms where more than 4,000 radiosurgical operative invasions are performed per year. The patients with neuroepithelial tumors (gliomas, astocytomas), which are found in 60% of all cancer cases, andpituitary and brain tunic tumors are treated here.

Charité is known for its own scientific researches. The Clinic is one of the largest clinics in Europe therefore approximately 128,000 of patients come here for treatment annualy. The fight against cancer in the Department of Neurosurgery at Charité combines two or three methods of treatment of this disease depending on case complexity. Thus, an individual treatment plan will be drawn up for you:

• Open-type neurosurgery – craniotomy. This is a high-accuracy work on full or partial excision of the tumor;
• Transnasal endoscopic surgery – the excision of pituitary tumors via endoscopic instruments introduced into the cranial cavity through the sinuses;
• Intrathecal chemotherapy – the introduction of chemotherapeutic agent into the spinal liquor via lumbar puncture, is used after surgery for prolongation of the remission term as well as for metastases from other organs;
• The gold standard of treatment of brain cancer is a minimally invasive stereotactic radiosurgery by means of CyberKnife G4, robotic system Leksell Gamma Knife®. These radiosurgical methods allow to destroy the tumor without incisions and craniotomy thanks to the high-ionizing radiation;
• Proton therapy is a type of radiation therapy, in which the destruction of the tumor is performed through the stream of accelerated ionized particles.

Heinrich Heine University Hospital is a medical research center that includes 30 medical institutes and clinics and employs more than 5 000 doctors and medical specialists. 

University Hospital Aachen is the largest multidisciplinary hospital in Europe and it is affiliated with the medical faculty of Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen which is a research university of technology.

Erlangen University Hospital is a huge center including 24 clinics and one of the best cancer research centers. 

University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke is one of the largest medical institutions in Germany.

St. Marienstift Magdeburg GmbH belongs to the institution of the Elizabeth Vinzenz Association. It has 6 clinics, and 5 specializes departments. Annually St. Marienstift Clinic accepts over 15,000 patients.

Hospital in the Pfeiffer`s foundations is a multidisciplinary hospital with 21 medical specialty. The main ones are mammalogy, oncology, and treatment of hematological disorders. It is one of the traditional diaconal complex facilities in the central Germany with over 1,500 employees.

University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg is the largest medical complex in Western Europe, where the practical and scientific activities are conducted.

The Elbland Hospital is a multifield hospital, which closely collaborates with universities. The unique operations and treatment are performed there.

St. Josefs Hospital Wiesbaden is the medical institution, which always keeps a good level of treatment, diagnostics and rehabilitation.

Bavaria Kreischa Hospital is center of rehabilitation for patients with various conditions.