Choroid Plexus Carcinoma: Is there a cure to this disease?

First off, my condolences about your child. I have never had a child, but I can imagine that it's a terrible loss, and my best wishes go to you and your family. As for cures, there is technically no cure.

The only way to really rid of Choroid Plexus Carcinomas is through surgical removal. Sadly, this alone rarely cures it without the use of various treatments; removing a brain tumor can only go so far, since the feasibility of actually removing depends on the tumor's location. This means that in most cases, they can only remove so much of the tumor.

From what I've read, there are three other known treatments: The first of the three is radiation therapy. This, when targeting the tumor, will kill any remaining tumor cells left behind from surgery. The second of the three is known as a VP Shunt, which is short for "Ventriculo-Peritoneal Shunt."

This is where special tubing is surgically placed in the ventricles to drain excess CSF fluid into the abdomen. CSF fluid (short for Cerebrospinal fluid) is basically what the brain floats in. A tumor sometimes causes a block of this fluid, which will cause unnecessary amounts of it to build up in the brain cavity.

The VP shunt would therefor bypass the blockage so that there would be no overload. The third of the three is Chemotherapy, which is a drug treatment to help interfere with the tumor's ability to grow and reproduce. This can also be used prior to surgery to help decrease the tumor's size, which can make it more possible to fully remove the tumor.

I hope this helped, and I have a few sources below that should help you with any further questions. Once again, I'm terribly sorry about what happened to your toddler, and I wish your family the speediest of recoveries!

First off, my condolences about your child. I have never had a child, but I can imagine that it's a terrible loss, and my best wishes go to you and your family. As for cures, there is technically no cure.

The only way to really rid of Choroid Plexus Carcinomas is through surgical removal. Sadly, this alone rarely cures it without the use of various treatments; removing a brain tumor can only go so far, since the feasibility of actually removing depends on the tumor's location. This means that in most cases, they can only remove so much of the tumor.

From what I've read, there are three other known treatments: The first of the three is radiation therapy. This, when targeting the tumor, will kill any remaining tumor cells left behind from surgery. The second of the three is known as a VP Shunt, which is short for "Ventriculo-Peritoneal Shunt.

" This is where special tubing is surgically placed in the ventricles to drain excess CSF fluid into the abdomen. CSF fluid (short for Cerebrospinal fluid) is basically what the brain floats in. A tumor sometimes causes a block of this fluid, which will cause unnecessary amounts of it to build up in the brain cavity.

The VP shunt would therefor bypass the blockage so that there would be no overload. The third of the three is Chemotherapy, which is a drug treatment to help interfere with the tumor's ability to grow and reproduce. This can also be used prior to surgery to help decrease the tumor's size, which can make it more possible to fully remove the tumor.

I hope this helped, and I have a few sources below that should help you with any further questions. Once again, I'm terribly sorry about what happened to your toddler, and I wish your family the speediest of recoveries!

As this is a carcinoma/cancer, there is no cure - only treatment. Mostly occurs in children, so here's a great link with symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options. childrenshospital.org/az/Site2138/mainpa... Hope this helps!

Choroid plexous is a rare brain tumor. There some treatment option like surgery,chemotherapy,radiotherapy present. Surgery is difficult as there some complication occurred.

After surgery chemotherapy started,sometimes radiotherapy given. But response of chemotherapy is poor. This treatment should given consultation with neurosurgeon,paediatric oncologist,radiotherapist.

They decided what should done for management of patient. But it is said over all prognosis is bad.

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