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I'm Adam Mamelak and I am a Professor of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai.
I direct the Pituitary Center and I'm also the Director of Functional Neurosurgery
here at Cedars. I'm very fortunate to work with people that
are really leading in both clinical management of hormone diseases, pituitary
diseases, as well as laboratory based research.
A person coming to a neurosurgeon at least for a brain problem
tend to be very anxious. There are certain symptoms of a pituitary tumor
and they vary depending on the type of tumor
and that's usually detected by blood test for hormones and then
MRI of the pituitary gland. Pituitary tumors
are very very very rarely malignant. So, one of the things I really like to do
is say, "You're going to be fine. Yes, you have a tumor
but it's not cancer." Now we just have to figure out what we're
going to do from here. My hope is that by the time we've met
and spoken, they'll have a pretty good sense of
whatever path they choose.
It'll be a path that works best for them and in their best medical interest.