The Alvord Brain Tumor Center at UW Medical Center - Montlake is located in the main hospital. The specialists at Alvord Brain Tumor Center treat all types of brain and spine tumors such as meningiomas and glioblastomas that start in the brain (primary brain tumors) or spread to the brain from another part of the body (metastatic or secondary brain tumors). For patients with brain cancer, the leading brain cancer specialists from UW Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offer complete care from neurosurgery to medical oncology and radiation oncology with the region's only proton beam therapy center.