Dr. Mitchel S. Berger

Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery
Director of the Brain Tumor Research Center

University of California, San Francisco

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Guidance for Newly Diagnosed Brain Cancer Patients Key Components of your Cancer Team Timeframe: Don’t rush into surgery Experience, complications, and post-op issues The importance of seeking a second opinion Rationale for surgery: pre-surgical planning and discussions Tumor tissue: essential for use in targeted therapies Definition and method of biopsy and craniotomy Technical advances in neurosurgery: navigation systems, neuroanasthesia, and imaging capabilities Brain mapping: Identifying functional tissue during surgery

The Promise of Research: Now and in the Future Targeted therapy and personalized medicine: what’s on the horizon Dye compounds How to expedite discovery of better treatments

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