Norton Healthcare Brain Tumor Center

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The Norton Healthcare Brain Tumor Center’s caring specialists provide advanced treatments through a collaboration between Norton Neuroscience Institute and Norton Cancer Institute. 

A glioblastoma survivor and his wife look to the future

John and Jessica Bostock were at an exciting time in their lives when John was diagnosed with glioblastoma. Six years later, John is a glioblastoma survivor.

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Our providers are at the forefront of brain tumor, brain cancer and spinal cord tumor diagnosis, treatment and research. Often when a new brain tumor treatment is approved for broad use, our physicians already have deep experience with it because they were principal investigators during the clinical trial phase of its development. This also means that patients can be eligible to take part in a clinical trial of novel, often groundbreaking treatments.

Once you get a brain cancer or brain tumor diagnosis, it’s a scary time, but it’s also time to get started on your recovery. Newly diagnosed patients can get same-day appointments at the Brain Tumor Center. Because spinal cord tumors have their own unique considerations, our specialists also work with the specialists at Norton Leatherman Spine to bring more viewpoints to your condition.

Conditions we treat range from the more common brain cancers like glioblastoma to rare cancers that require the experience that our specialists offer.

You also may want to seek a second opinion, and you should. Understanding your brain tumor treatment options is a serious undertaking. Check with your insurance provider to avoid any surprises, and we’ll provide whatever records are necessary. If you are coming to us seeking a second opinion, we have an expedited process for getting you started.

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When You Choose the Brain Tumor Center

  • A patient navigator dedicated to brain tumor patients and their families acts as a patient advocate through diagnosis, treatment and beyond.
  • Our brain tumor board, using a multidisciplinary approach, ensures your case is carefully reviewed and benefits from the viewpoints of specialists from a broad array of expertise, experience and training.
  • If you would like to confirm your diagnosis and treatment plan, consider getting a second opinion from the Norton Healthcare Brain Tumor Center.
  • Our specialists are skilled and experienced with brain tumor radiation therapy, neurological surgery, brain tumor chemotherapy, brain tumor treating fields, immunotherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, laser interstitial thermal therapy with robotic assistance and emerging treatments.
  • These specialists work side by side, allowing you to schedule multiple appointments for the same day, in the same location.
  • Counselors provide compassionate, friendly guidance to patients whose finances have been upended by their diagnosis.
  • From minimally invasive robotics to the latest in immunology and clinical trials, sophisticated treatments can precisely reduce or eliminate brain and spinal tumors while protecting healthy tissue.
  • Norton Children’s Cancer Institute, affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine, provides specialized care for pediatric brain tumors.
  • Medicare, Medicaid and most major commercial insurance plans are accepted.
  • Communicate with your provider, manage appointments, refill prescriptions and get alerted when earlier appointments become available with your free Norton MyChart account.

“I’ve been trained at and have visited renowned academic health centers, and the Brain Tumor Center here encompasses the expertise of the same skilled providers while going above and beyond to provide true multidisciplinary care to patients in one clinical setting. There is no delay or wondering on the patient’s part, because our team is there to provide answers. Of all of the teams I have been a part of, there has never been a team where so many specialties — radiation, oncology, neurosurgery, neuro-oncology — are so closely linked. Our care is truly a unique, rare, collaborative effort to benefit our patients.”

Kaylyn D. Sinicrope, M.D.
Neuro-oncology
Medical Director, Brain Tumor Center

“We’ve combined the expertise of Norton Neuroscience Institute and Norton Cancer Institute to create a place where the medical expertise across a variety of specialties is used to the best of its ability. Our goal is to provide one place that offers you all you would need when facing a brain tumor diagnosis paired with all the support dedicated to creating a customized treatment plan for each person and their family.”

Aaron C. Spalding M.D., Ph.D.
Radiation Oncology
Medical Director, Norton Cancer Institute

“For those that choose the Brain Tumor Center, each patient and their family are at the center of this team’s focus. We all gather with different backgrounds and all with different specialties. The power of this center is that while a family is living life, through this program you are effectively getting 10 to 15 consults of leading specialists working together to come up with the next step for your journey but in a way that is designed to be carefully coordinated for each patient.”

David A. Sun, M.D., Ph.D.
Neurosurgery
Medical Director, Norton Neuroscience Institute

Treatments

Brain Tumor Center specialists treat a comprehensive range of spinal or brain tumor types, whether benign or malignant. They have the skill and experience to precisely diagnose and treat any brain tumor while preserving healthy brain tissue and quality of life.

Patient Support

Brain Tumor Center patients get continuing support through Norton Cancer Institute Resource Centers, tNorton Neuroscience Institute Resource Centers, specialty pharmacy consultations and monitoring, financial counseling, and the guidance of a dedicated patient navigator

Clinical Trials and Research

Norton Healthcare Brain Tumor Center is at the forefront of central nervous system tumor treatment research. As principal investigators on numerous trials, our specialist physicians have extensive experience with many innovative treatments once they are approved for broad use. Patients also may be eligible to take part in these experimental brain tumor treatments. Norton Healthcare Brain Tumor Center researchers also contribute to groundbreaking studies and other publications in peer-reviewed journals.

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