In addition to all the other work he does, Dr. Jeffrey N. Bruce from the Brain Tumor Center has been extra busy writing these days.  He and his colleagues just finished a chapter on Skull Based Tumors for WebMD's eMedicine Neurosurgery Book.  About which he says, "Basic surgical approaches to...

The answer is YES!  There is exciting news on the horizon for cancer patients.  Dr. Jeffrey N. Bruce from the Brain Tumor Center has announced the start of Phase 2 Clinical Trials for a new vaccine to be used in the battle against brain tumors, specifically high-grade gliomas.  Gliomas are the...

Dr. Jeffrey Bruce was contacted by the Associated Press for an interview  in a video describing Senator Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor treatment.

We are proud to announce that our team at the Gamma Knife Center, led by Dr. Sisti and Dr. Isaacson, treated their 2700th patient today.  Brain tumors, brain cancer, arteriovenous malformations, trigeminal neuralgia, acoustic neuroma, and other problems have been successfully treated with the Gamma...

Despite the lack of evidence so far, the suggestion that cell phone use is in some way linked to the development of brain tumors still abounds, prompting study after study. Newly published research out of Scandinavia, where cell phone use is particularly high, shows that there is still no link....

Dr. Mandigo earned his medical doctorate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons where he graduated Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed his Neurological Surgery Internship, Residency and Chief Residency at the Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia University. Dr. Mandigo's practice is...

More than 400 patients per year undergo surgery for brain tumors at Columbia University Medical Center, making it one of the busiest brain tumor centers in the United States. Our multidisciplinary team of neuro-oncologists and neurosurgeons has expertise in diagnosing and treating a wide variety of...

A tumor, or neoplasm, is a mass of abnormal cells that grows at an uncontrolled pace, crowding out and destroying normal tissue. Metastatic brain tumors are malignant growths that are formed by cancer cells originating in a different region or organ in the body. Cancers of the lung, breast, skin, an...

Medulloblastomas are the most common primary malignant brain tumors in children, accounting for as many as 30 percent of all solid brain tumors — as well as rarer tumors, such as neuroblastomas, pineoblastomas, and retinoblastomas. A type of primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET), medulloblastomas...

Dr. Olson specializes in tumor resection within eloquent regions of the brain, performing awake surgery with intraoperative mapping. He also performs minimally invasive spine surgery, X-Stop interspinous implantation and a wide variety of neurosurgical procedures such as gamma knife and cyber knife...