Expert Brain and Spine Cancer Care at Providence Saint John’s

We understand it can be frightening when doctors detect tumors in your brain or spine. It can take an emotional and physical toll on you, but that’s why we’re here. Through experience, teamwork and collaboration, the Brain Tumor Center at Providence Saint John’s provides comprehensive treatments and compassionate care to patients with brain, skull base and pituitary tumors. We’ve assembled a multi-disciplinary team of specialists who work in partnership with our experienced neurosurgeons. Together, they ensure you receive individualized care and treatment options for your complex needs. Our treatments include surgery to remove cancerous tumors, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and radiation therapy.

2125 Arizona Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404
1988.0 miles away
844-933-0296
310-582-7495
Mon - Fri: 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Expert Brain and Spine Cancer Care at Providence Saint John’s

We understand it can be frightening when doctors detect tumors in your brain or spine. It can take an emotional and physical toll on you, but that’s why we’re here. Through experience, teamwork and collaboration, the Brain Tumor Center at Providence Saint John’s provides comprehensive treatments and compassionate care to patients with brain, skull base and pituitary tumors. We’ve assembled a multi-disciplinary team of specialists who work in partnership with our experienced neurosurgeons. Together, they ensure you receive individualized care and treatment options for your complex needs. Our treatments include surgery to remove cancerous tumors, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and radiation therapy.

2125 Arizona Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404
1988.0 miles away
844-933-0296
Mon - Fri: 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Personalized Treatment for Brain and Spine Cancer

We take a team approach to your cancer treatment because we know this offers the best success in controlling and curing cancer. Your multidisciplinary cancer care team will work with you to design an individualized cancer care plan, from diagnosis to post-treatment support. We offer many different therapies across our Providence locations. Depending on your condition, your personal care plan may include one or more of the following:

Systemic therapies travel through the bloodstream and affect cells in other body parts. They are used for patients whose cancer has spread to other areas of the body or if there’s a high risk of spread. Sophisticated genetic analysis allows us to target therapies to specific DNA mutations that cause cancer cells to develop and grow. Systemic therapies include:

  • Chemotherapy
  • Clinical trials
  • Immunotherapy

Surgical therapies involve an operation or procedure to remove cancer from the body. Surgery may be the main treatment for some invasive cancers, but it’s only one part of the entire treatment plan. Surgical therapies include:

  • Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT)
  • Neuroendoscopy
  • Resection of the brain and nervous system

Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation from a source like X-rays or photons to kill cancer cells or shrink tumors. It may be part of a treatment plan that also includes systemic therapies and/or surgery. Radiation is sometimes used to help ease a patient’s pain or discomfort. Radiation therapies include:

  • Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT)

Additional therapies may also be part of the treatment plan for a small number of patients. These may include:

  • Alternating electrical fields
  • Interventional radiology

Meet the Team

At Providence, you'll have access to a vast network of dedicated and compassionate providers who offer personalized care by focusing on treatment, prevention and health education.

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Our Approach

Through experience, teamwork and collaboration, our Brain Tumor Center provides comprehensive treatments and compassionate care to patients with brain, skull base and pituitary tumors.

Specialist care

At the Brain Tumor Center, we’ve assembled a multi-disciplinary team of specialists who work in partnership with our experienced neurosurgeons. Together, they ensure our patients receive individualized care for their complex needs.

Expert treatments

Our professionals collaborate with each patient and their physicians to coordinate care and develop an appropriate treatment plan. Your care is personalized to your needs, and may include minimally invasive keyhole and endonasal endoscopic surgery, stereotactic radiation treatment, cutting-edge cancer treatments, genomic sequencing and hormone replacement therapy.

  • Glioma, glioblastoma and Astrocytoma
  • Meningioma
  • Metastatic brain tumors
  • Schwannoma (trigeminal and vestibular)
  • Craniopharyngioma
  • Chordoma
  • Colloid cyst
  • Epidermoid cyst
  • Hemangioblastoma
  • Intraventricular tumors
  • Olfactory neuroblastoma
  • Pineal region tumors
  • Spinal cord tumors

Why Choose Providence for Your Brain and Nervous System Cancer Care?

Every year, fellowship-trained specialists at our brain tumor centers of excellence treat thousands of patients just like you. With such deep experience, you know you’re in the most capable hands. Here are even more reasons so many tumor patients trust Providence for their care:

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No two patients are alike. This is why we take a personalized approach to treating cancer of the nervous system, which includes the brain and spine. Our multidisciplinary tumor boards bring together your oncologists, neurologists and other experts to collaborate on your diagnosis and treatment. We also offer a Providence Molecular Tumor Board, which evaluates your genomic and clinical information to find the best genetically matched treatment for you. Your oncologists and neurologists will work with you to design a care plan that fits your needs. It’s an approach that combines leading-edge treatment with the compassionate care Providence is known for.

We take a team-based approach to treating cancer of the brain and spine, and we perform minimally invasive procedures whenever possible. Your team may treat you with Gamma Knife, a technology that precisely targets tumors with high-dose radiation beams. Or your specialists may recommend surgery, such as open surgery or neuroendoscopy. A neuroendoscopy is a minimally invasive treatment that uses a small incision to remove a tumor. Depending on your cancer and treatment, your care team may include specialists such as neuro-oncologists, radiation oncologists, neurosurgeons, neuro-radiologists, neuro-ophthalmologists, otolaryngologists, endocrinologists, oncology nurse navigators and rehabilitation specialists.

Learn more about the experts who make up our multidisciplinary cancer care teams.

We provide you and your family with a full range of support services that go well beyond conventional treatment, from genetic counseling and education to nutrition and pain management. Our rehabilitation therapies – such as speech, occupational and physical therapy – help you regain mental and physical strength following treatment. And because cancer can be an emotional strain, we care for your mind and spirit as well as your body. We offer counseling services and support groups so you can connect with fellow patients and share your journey.

Cancer doesn’t discriminate, but access to great brain and nervous system cancer care hasn’t always been the same for everyone. At Providence, we are deeply committed to making sure every patient we treat has access to the best cancer care. We offer various location-specific services to help our patients receive equitable care, such as translation for non-English-speaking patients, telehealth and transportation assistance. We value, respect and support the racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual and spiritual identities of each member of our diverse community. And, in keeping with our Mission, Providence offers financial assistance programs that provide free and low-cost care to those who are eligible.

As a patient at Providence, you have access to the largest community-based cancer network in the United States. Being part of a collaborative network means that your local care team shares knowledge and experience with other world-class clinicians across 51 hospitals in seven states. The extent and power of our network is one of the reasons more than 2,000 new brain and nervous system cancer patients – and 50,000 new cancer patients overall – choose Providence each year.

Providence is well known for offering options – and hope – to patients seeking the most advanced procedures and therapies to treat brain and nervous system cancers. As a patient, you have the opportunity to participate in one of more than 35 clinical trials for brain tumors conducted across the Providence network.

The Power of Our Network

Part of the Providence Cancer Institute in Los Angeles

Our patients are the center of everything we do:

  • Our unique patient navigator program offers navigators specific to each cancer type to assist you throughout your cancer journey.
  • Our beautiful, modern hospitals are equipped with the latest technologies.
  • We also offer robust research labs not found in local, community-focused hospitals.

Learn more about the Providence Cancer Institute in Los Angeles

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