Brain Tumor Center

The Childhood Brain Tumor Center at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center is a world-renowned destination for children with malignant and non-malignant brain and spinal cord tumors. Our patients receive care from neurologists, neuro-oncologists, neurosurgeons, and pediatric subspecialists with extensive expertise in the conditions we treat.

Conditions We Treat

• Choroid plexus tumors

• Germ cell tumors of the brain, including germinoma

• Gliomas
  • Angiocentric glioma
  • Astrocytoma
    • Anaplastic astrocytoma
    • Fibrillary astrocytoma
    • Pilocytic astrocytoma
    • Thalamic and hypothalamic astrocytoma
  • Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)
  • Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (DNET)
  • Ganglioglioma and glial neuronal tumors
  • Glioblastoma multiforme or GBM
  • Gliomatosis cerebri
  • Gliosarcoma
  • Low-grade gliomas
  • Oligodendroglioma
  • Optic nerve glioma
  • Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA)
  • Tectal glioma

• Neural tumors
  • Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (ATRT)
  • Medulloblastoma
  • Neurocytoma
  • Primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) and pineoblastoma

• Spinal cord tumors

• Other
  • Craniopharyngioma
  • Ependymoma
  • Meningioma
  • Neurofibroma/plexiform neurofibroma
  • Schwannoma (neurilemoma)

Specialized Treatment Programs for Brain Tumors

• Glioma Program
• Medulloblastoma Program
• Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivorship Program

Please visit the Boston Children’s Hospital or Dana-Farber Cancer Institute websites to learn more about our Brain Tumor Center, including information about:

• Our treatment team
• Conditions we treat and specialized treatment programs
• Brain tumor clinical trials