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:
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Open-type neurosurgery – craniotomy. This is a high-accuracy work on full or partial excision of the tumor;
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Transnasal endoscopic surgery – the excision of pituitary tumors via endoscopic instruments introduced into the cranial cavity through the sinuses;
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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;
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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;
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Proton therapy is a type of radiation therapy, in which the destruction of the tumor is performed through the stream of accelerated ionized particles.
