Web Resources
Brain Tumor Centers: Websites with lists of centers
Brain Tumor Society (BTS) List if Brain Tumor Centers: These centers offer comprehensive services and provide
patients with state-of-the-art care and treatment options. Brain tumor centers
and clinics usually offer specialized support services for brain tumor patients
as well as access to brain tumor support networks, medical social workers, and
case managers. List of 37 in USA, and 4 in Canada
http://www.tbts.org/itemDetail.asp?categoryID=398&itemID=16501
Additional Treatment Centers:
http://www.tbts.org/itemDetail.asp?categoryID=442&itemID=17317
Major Brain Tumor Centers: Names, addresses, phone numbers
and website link of 18 major BT centers:
http://pages.prodigy.net/cnjbtsg/brain_tumor_centers.htm
National Brain Tumor Foundation:
NBTF listing of Treatment Centers and website links. Search by State, Physician Name, Physician Specialty, Medical Center or Number of Patients:
http://braintumor.org/patient_info/surviving/treatment_center_database/index.html
FACT Sheet:
Issues to Consider When Choosing a Brain Timor Treatment Center:
http://www.braintumor.org/pservices/pdfarchive/FactSheet-TreatmentCenter.pdf
North American Brain Tumor Consortium (NABTC) Clinical Trail
Consortium:
The NABTC has been funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
since 1993. It is dedicated to the development and conduct of innovative
clinical trials that will ultimately result in a cure for patients with
malignant brain tumors. There are 9 Member Institutions:
http://www.nabtc.org/Institutions.shtml
Physicians:
http://www.nabtc.org/physician.shtml
New Approaches to Brain Tumor Therapy (NABTT): The primary
objective of the NABTT CNS Consortium is to improve the therapeutic outcome for
adults with primary brain tumors. This consortium is one of two
nationwide that is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to conduct
Phase I and II clinical evaluations of promising new treatment
strategies… The consortium has 9 medical institutions:
http://www.nabtt.org
Virtual Trials - Brain Tumor Treatment Centers and website
links:
To be included on this list, the center must have treated at least 50
brain tumor patients in the past year. Centers marked with a red star (
*) offer our patients a free scan. Centers are listed
in order of State, then City.
http://www.virtualtrials.com/btcenters.cfm
Tumor Free: List of 14 medical centers which treat or
research brain tumors:
http://tumorfree.com/links.htm#Medical
