Brain Cancer

Brain cancers and tumours are a type of cancer that occur in the brain. These cancer types can affect your neurological function, and impact cognition, movement, and overall wellbeing.

Treatment for brain cancer often involves surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and targeted treatments depending on the type and location.

At Verita Life, integrative brain cancer support is designed around you and any other treatments you are working with. Our team will help patients to manage symptoms, maintain stability, and support your overall quality of life.

Our team at Verita Life provide complementary therapies for a variety of brain cancers, including:

Symptoms depend on where the tumour is and how fast it grows. They can include:

• A morning headache, or a headache that goes away after vomiting
• Seizures
• Problems with vision, hearing, or speech
• Frequent nausea and vomiting
• Changes in personality, mood, ability to focus, or behaviour
• Loss of balance, trouble walking, or weakness or numbness in the arms or legs
• Unusual sleepiness, or a change in activity level

A headache on its own is rarely a brain tumour. A new seizure, or a headache with any of the other symptoms above, needs prompt medical attention.

There is no standard staging system for brain tumours, because they rarely spread outside the brain and spinal cord. Instead they are graded from 1 to 4 by how the cells look under a microscope and how fast they are likely to grow.

Grade 1 tumours grow slowly and are the most likely to be cured by surgery. Grade 4 tumours, such as glioblastoma, grow quickly. Tests for genetic markers such as IDH mutation and MGMT methylation now help predict how a tumour will behave and which treatments will work.

Metastatic brain tumours are staged as part of the cancer they came from.

Brain tumour treatment depends on the type and grade, its position, your symptoms, and your overall health. A neuro-oncology team plans it. Verita Life does not replace this care. Our therapies are designed to support it.

Active surveillance

Regular scans without immediate treatment, an option for some slow-growing tumours.

Surgery

Removal of as much of the tumour as can be taken safely, which relieves pressure and provides tissue for diagnosis.

Radiation therapy

High-energy beams aimed at the tumour, including focused techniques such as stereotactic radiosurgery, often after surgery.

Chemotherapy

Medicines that kill fast-growing cells, such as temozolomide, given with or after radiation for higher-grade gliomas.

Targeted therapy

Medicines that block specific changes in the tumour cells, used for tumours that carry them.

Supportive care

Steroids to reduce swelling, medicines to control seizures, and rehabilitation for speech, movement, or thinking, which are part of treatment from the start.

A neurologically focused approach to brain cancer support

Brain cancer is a very complex type of cancer and the approach to treatment needs to be highly considered due to the potential impact on the central nervous system.

At Verita Life our supportive care is carefully structured to align with neurological health, treatment pathways, and your own individual needs.

Our approach includes:

Why patients choose Verita Life for brain cancer support

• Medically guided integrative care: All programmes are developed with careful consideration of neurological health and your current stage of treatment.
• Adaptable care programmes: Treatment plans are constantly monitored by our medical team, so we can adapt your programme as you respond to treatment, or if there are any changes to your condition.
• Focus on quality of life: Our care is structured to support comfort, cognitive function, and daily living.
• Experienced international medical team: Our team is made up of some of the leading medical experts in oncology care.

Treatment for brain cancer care at Verita Life

Verita Life’s integrative brain cancer treatments incorporate medically-backed traditional therapies with holistic therapies designed to complement conventional care. Our brain cancer treatments include:

Metronomic Therapy

Metronomic chemotherapy is an approach to cancer treatment in which chemotherapy is given at a lower dose, but more frequently and with shorter or no extended breaks between treatments.

Metabolic Treatment

Metabolic approaches investigate how cancer cells obtain and use energy and nutrients. Cancer cells behave very differently to healthy cells, often heavily relying on glucose and alter their metabolic pathways in order to grow more rapidly than healthy cells. This is a broad area of research, not a single established treatment or diet and at Verita Life we use metabolic approaches within our wider, personalised treatment plans.

Local Body Hyperthermia

Local body hyperthermia is a type of integrative therapy designed to work alongside both integrative oncology care and conventional cancer treatments. Local body hyperthermia is a targeted heat-based therapy that delivers controlled heat to specific areas of the body.

IPT & Low-Dose Chemotherapy

Insulin potentiation therapy, or IPT, uses insulin alongside lower doses of chemotherapy as part of an integrative cancer treatment approach.

Herbal Cancer Therapy

Following years of research, our medical team have developed specific herbal treatment protocols to address varying types of tumours. We use proven compounds that stem from all natural herbal ingredients such as curcumin, quercetin and other anti-cancer therapies.

Biological Treatment

Biological treatments are supportive regimens that can sometimes fall under immunotherapy due to their nature, and work by harnessing the body's natural immune system or targeting precise molecular pathways involved in cancer growth.

Natural Killer Cell Therapy

Natural Killer (NK) cells are a type of lymphocyte, or white blood cell, that play a major role in the immune system by targeting and killing infected cells and cancer cells.