Neurology
Starting from
$5,000
Up to $30,000 depending on centre
Typical duration
14–28 days
Including pre-operative work-up
Partner hospitals
3
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World-class brain tumor resection and radiosurgery performed by internationally trained neurosurgeons using intraoperative MRI, neuronavigation, and awake craniotomy techniques. Medical tourists benefit from significantly lower costs without compromising on outcomes at India's and Thailand's leading neuroscience centers.
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Average coordinated costs across our partner centres. Final pricing depends on clinical complexity and chosen hospital.
| Country | Avg. cost | vs. cheapest |
|---|---|---|
🇮🇳 India New Delhi · Chennai · Bengaluru · Hyderabad · Mumbai · Kochi | $7,500 | —chevron_right |
🇹🇷 Turkey Istanbul | $18,000 | +140%chevron_right |
Costs are indicative estimates and vary by procedure specifics, hospital, and clinical complexity. Request a personalised estimate for your specific case.
This treatment category covers several different operations with different levels of invasiveness, recovery times, and costs. The country averages above blend all of them together — use the breakdown below for a more realistic, procedure-specific estimate.
A section of the skull is temporarily removed to give the surgeon direct access to the brain, allowing as much of the tumor as possible to be removed (resected) while sparing healthy tissue — the standard approach for most brain tumors that aren't suited to an endoscopic route.
Typical recovery · 6–12 weeks
Hospital stay is typically 3–7 days, including a period of close neuro-monitoring; most patients need 6–12 weeks at home before returning to normal activity and work, with fatigue and gradual improvement continuing for up to three months.
India
$4,800–$9,500
Turkey
$12,000–$19,000
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
A focused, high-dose beam of radiation — delivered via Gamma Knife, CyberKnife, or a linear accelerator (LINAC) — targets the tumor precisely without any incision, most often used for small-to-medium tumors, brain metastases, or lesions in locations too risky for open surgery.
Typical recovery · 1–2 days
Treatment is delivered in 1–5 outpatient sessions with no hospital admission required in most cases; patients usually resume normal activity within a day or two, though the radiation's effect on the tumor develops gradually over weeks to months and is tracked with periodic follow-up MRI scans.
India
$4,500–$8,000
Turkey
$6,500–$12,000
Thailand
$6,750–$8,250
A craniotomy performed with the patient awake and responsive during the tumor-removal portion, so the surgical team can map speech, movement, or other critical brain functions in real time and avoid damaging them — used for tumors located near these functional areas.
Typical recovery · 4–6 weeks
Hospital stay is generally 3–7 days; patients are often walking the day after surgery, with most returning to non-strenuous activity in 4–6 weeks and fuller recovery over a few months — similar to a standard craniotomy, but with added intraoperative mapping to protect function.
India
$4,500–$6,500
Turkey
$15,000–$22,000
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
A thin, camera-equipped instrument is passed through a small natural opening (often the nasal passage for pituitary and skull-base tumors) or a minimal incision to remove the tumor without a large skull opening — a minimally invasive option for select tumors in accessible locations.
Typical recovery · 2–4 weeks
Hospital stay is typically 2–3 days; because the approach avoids a large craniotomy, most patients return to light normal activity within 2–4 weeks, though this varies with the tumor's type, size, and location.
India
$5,500–$9,500
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Maximal safe surgical resection of glioblastoma — the most common and most aggressive primary malignant brain tumor — using intraoperative MRI, neuronavigation, and fluorescence-guided techniques to remove as much tumor as safely possible while preserving neurological function. Surgery is followed by combined radiation and chemotherapy (the Stupp protocol) and does not cure the disease on its own.
Typical recovery · 4–8 weeks
Hospital stay usually includes an initial night in intensive care followed by several more days on the ward, typically 5–10 days in total; most patients need 4–8 weeks before resuming daily activities, before starting adjuvant chemoradiation. It's important to go in with honest expectations: even with optimal surgery and follow-on treatment, glioblastoma has a median survival of roughly 12–15 months and recurrence within the first year is common, so surgery aims to maximize safe tumor removal, function, and time — not cure.
India
$6,900–$9,500
Turkey
$13,000–$18,000
Thailand
$15,000–$30,000
Cost ranges are indicative estimates for international patients and vary with implant choice, number of levels treated, surgeon, and hospital. Request a personalised quote for your specific case.
Clinical detail: AAOS OrthoInfo, Mayo Clinic Health System, Cleveland Clinic. Cost ranges cross-checked across multiple independent medical-tourism sources per country where marked; ranges flagged "pending verification" could not be independently confirmed at the time of writing.
Faridabad, India
Asia's largest private hospital — 2,600 beds, 64 operation theatres, 81 specialties on a 130-acre campus in Delhi NCR. NABH & NABL accredited. Centres of excellence in oncology, cardiac surgery, BMT, organ transplantation, neurosciences, and IVF.
800+
Specialists
2,600+
Beds
Gurugram, India
Medanta – The Medicity is India's #1 hospital (Newsweek World's Best Hospitals 2026), founded by renowned cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Naresh Trehan on a 43-acre campus in Sector 38, Gurugram. The flagship facility operates 1,391 beds including 270+ ICU beds, 40 operating theatres, and 900+ experienced physicians across 30+ specialties. Medanta is the only Indian private hospital to be consistently ranked among the world's top 150 medical facilities, and receives over 20,000 international patients annually from more than 130 countries. Its centres of excellence span cardiac care, oncology, neurosciences, organ transplantation, gastrosciences, and orthopaedics, backed by JCI, NABH, and NABL accreditation.
900+
Specialists
1,391+
Beds
New Delhi, India
Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Sarita Vihar, New Delhi is one of India's foremost multi-specialty tertiary care centres, part of the Apollo Hospitals network established by Dr. Prathap C Reddy in 1983. The 710-bed facility records 1,600+ daily OPD visits, 1,000+ international patient consultations monthly, and receives 5,000+ international patients per year from over 120 countries. Its Centres of Excellence span cardiac sciences, oncology, neurosciences, organ transplantation, nephrology, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, and bariatric surgery. The hospital is equipped with Da Vinci XI robotic systems, CyberKnife radiosurgery, 3 Tesla MRI, LINAC, ECMO, and a 3D neuro-navigation system.
700+
Specialists
710+
Beds
You can share your MRI reports and biopsy results with our partner neurosurgeons for a remote second opinion. Based on tumor type, size, and location, they will recommend the most appropriate surgical or radiosurgical approach.
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