Back up inside the brain. and cause all the symptoms that she was having. that is what the doctors are targeting. what kind of treatments are available what is the typical prognosis? as far as treatments go there s a couple things to think about. as you know i removed tumors like this as well. one of the things if we could put the image up of the tumor. i want to show you this. when you are looking at that tumor you are also thinking about the fact that fluid may build up on top of the brain. sometimes you have to remove some of that excess fluid. and then you also want to actually do an operation to take out the tumor. what you have to assume with these types of tumors because they are malignant is that no matter how much of the tumor you remove during the operation that their maze still be some tumor remaining. that is why radiation is often given which is something isabella has already received. she will be getting chemotherapy as well. it is an aggressive tumor requiring aggres ....