The Gaffin Center for Neuro-Oncology diagnoses and treats patients suffering from either primary brain tumors or secondary brain tumors (metastases). Additionally, patients who suffer from neurological complication of any systemic tumors (oncological or hematological tumors) are also referred for diagnosis and treatment at the Center for Neuro-Oncology. The neurological complications of these patients can be related to either the presence of the primary tumor or as to the result of treatment such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
What We Treat at the Center for Neuro-Oncology
- Primary Brain Tumors: Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma, Oligodendeoglioma, Medulloblastoma, Meningioma, primary brain lymphoma.
- Complications of Systemic Tumors: brain metastases, spinal metastases, peripheral neuropathy, neurological complication of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Patients with primary brain tumors treated at the Center for Neuro-Oncology can participate in clinical studies. The Center also houses a research laboratory and a laboratory for molecular diagnosis of brain tumors, the only laboratory in Israel which routinely performs molecular and genetic analysis of brain tumors.
Patients can be referred to the outpatient clinics. The outpatient clinics operate on Monday through Thursday. Patients who need hospitalization will be hospitalized either in the Hematology or the Oncology departments depending on the type of their primary tumor. These patients will be treated jointly by the Neuro-Oncology staff and the physicians in their department.