 Hello friends, I am Dr. Anurag Saxena, Head of Department of Neurosurgery at Manipal Hospital, Dwarka, New Delhi. In this short video we are going to discuss about the recent advances and the technological achievements which you have got to treat brain tumours and make this kind of treatment very safe and effective. So the main step of brain tumours as we all know is neurosurgery, is micro-neurosurgery but because of the recent advances we have got latest microscopes. Even with microscopes we have got latest techniques and certain types of medicines which we can give during the surgery which makes a tumour glow or make it separate from the normal brain which increases the extent of the tumour and sometimes we are able to remove all of the tumour making the surgery curative. There are latest neuro navigation and computer guidance systems which guide us inside the brain just like the GPS on your phone and tells us which is the normal structure and which is abnormal structure or where we are in the brain that significantly improves the safety profile of the surgery. The tumours which are near your important cranial nerves again poses a risk that they might damage the nerve tumour or during the surgery there might be a risk to damage of the nerves. In that case we normally use nerve monitoring which is we monitor this nerves with help of computer and neuro monitoring system during the surgery and it makes us you know it makes it possible for us to save this kind of nerves during neurosurgery and we take the whole tumour out without causing no without causing any damage or minimal damage to this kind of you know in this kind of surgeries. So all in all the surgery for brain tumour has become relatively very very safe. Other important modality which I would like to emphasize is radio surgery in certain small tumours in certain locations and certain varieties of tumours it is possible to give you a single dose of radiation in a single sitting maybe one or two sitting sometimes to control the rate of growth of the tumour. What it means is when the tumour is irradiated it stops growing and it lies there sometimes very rarely it can shrink also and that can avoid in that cases we can avoid surgery but again it is it is currently it is for very selective cases as well. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy for malignant tumours have also advanced very very now very sophisticated as well as very safe and so if you have a if you or your near rodeo one suffers from a brain tumour the recent advances have made the treatment very very safe.