The Best Ways To Treat Pituitary Tumors

External Beam Radiation

Yes, it's true. Most of these tumors aren't cancerous, men. But some are! That's where your doc's going to bring in external beam radiation. This is great, so great, for cancerous pituitary tumors! Men, the radiation is going to shrink it for you! It'll destroy the cancerous cells too! Yes! Obviously, they use a special X-ray machine for this one. It moves around your head at the perfect angles! It'll even customize the beams to your tumor, making it so effective. So effective!

Men, this radiation machine is never even going to touch you. You knew that, right? Of course! It's all in the name external beam radiation! Many, many men get a targeted version of this. It lowers organ damage and damage to the healthy tissue around your tumor! This is so, so important since your pituitary gland is right by your brain.