Prevention Of Brain Tumor

There is no known way to prevent primary brain tumors. As we know more about what you do, the more you can do to prevent them. Researchers are studying the genetic and hereditary factors, exposure to certain chemicals and exposure to certain viruses.

Secondary brain tumors, which originally started in other organs can be avoided. For example, to avoid decreasing the risk of lung cancer in tobacco, thus reducing the chances that cancer cells never appear in the brain.

Treatment Of Brain Tumor

Treatment depends on tumor type, size and location of the tumor, as well as your overall health and choice. The doctor can tailor treatment to suit the situation.

Surgery

If the tumor is located in a place that provides for the surgery, the surgeon will remove as much of your brain tumor as possible. In some cases, the tumors are small and easy to distinguish from surrounding brain tissue, making complete surgical removal possible. In other cases, tumors can not be separated from the surrounding tissue, or are close to sensitive areas of the brain, surgery risky. In these situations, your doctor may try to remove the tumor as is safe. Also remove the brain tumor may help reduce the symptoms experienced. In some cases, only a small biopsy will confirm the diagnosis.

Surgery to remove a brain tumor has risks such as infection and bleeding. Other risks depend on the part of the brain where the tumor. For example, surgery for a tumor near the nerves that connect the eye can cause a risk of vision loss.

Radiotherapy

Radiation therapy uses beams of high energy particles, such as X-rays to kill tumor cells. Radiation may come from a machine outside the body (external radiation therapy) or, in rare cases, radiation can be put into your body close to his brain tumor (brachytherapy).

External radiation therapy can only focus on the area of ​​your brain where the tumor or may be applied to your entire brain (whole brain radiation). Whole brain radiation is sometimes used after surgery to kill tumor cells that could be over.

Side effects of radiotherapy depend on the type and dose of radiation received. In general, it can cause headaches, fatigue, and irritation of the scalp.

Radiosurgery

Stereotactic radiosurgery does not cut shape in the traditional sense. Instead, radiosurgery uses multiple beams of radiation to give a highly concentrated form of radiation therapy to destroy cancer cells in a very small area. Each beam of radiation is not particularly strong, but to the point where all the beams meet - from a brain tumor - is a very high dose of radiation to kill cancer cells.

Radiosurgery usually takes place in treatment, and in most cases, you can go home the same day. Side effects can include fatigue, headache and nausea.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy drugs can be taken orally in pill form or injected into a vein (intravenously).

Another type of chemotherapy can be placed during surgery. By removing all or part of the brain tumor, the surgeon may place one or more disks in the form of platelets in the space left by the tumor. These wafers slowly release a chemotherapy drug in the coming days.

Side effects of chemotherapy depend on the type and dose of medication you receive. Systemic chemotherapy may cause nausea, vomiting and hair loss.

Targeted Drug Therapy

Targeted drug therapies focus on specific abnormalities present within cancer cells. By blocking these anomalies, targeted therapies can cause cancer cells to die. Many of the targeted drug therapies are very recent and still in progress to take into account non-clinical studies.

The drug therapy used to treat brain tumors is bevacizumab (Avastin). The drug, through a vein (intravenously), stops the formation of new blood vessels, cutting off the blood supply to the tumor and destroy tumor cells.

The rehabilitation therapy

Because brain tumors can develop in parts of the brain that controls motor skills, speech, vision and thought, can not repair a necessary part of healing. Your doctor can refer you to services that can help, such as:

Physical therapy can help you regain lost motor skills or muscle strength.

Occupational therapy can help return to normal daily activities, like work, when a brain tumor or other diseases.

Speech therapy experienced difficulty with the language (speech therapists) can help if you have difficulty speaking.

Tutoring for children of school age can help children cope with changes in their memory and thinking after a brain tumor.

Symptoms Of BrainTumor

The symptoms of a brain tumor vary greatly and depend on a brain tumor location, size and growth rate.

General signs and symptoms caused by brain tumors may include:

The appearance or change in frequency

Headaches that gradually become more frequent and severe

Unexplained nausea or vomiting

Vision problems, such as blurred vision, double vision or loss of peripheral vision

Gradual loss of sensation or movement of the hand or foot

Difficulties in the balance

Speech difficulties

Confusion in everyday matters

Changes in personality or behavior

Seizures, especially in someone who has no history of seizures

Hearing problems

When to see a doctor

Make an appointment with your doctor if you have signs and symptoms that worry you. This may include headache, which worsens progressively, is particularly serious, is always in the same place, or are accompanied by nausea or vomiting, or blurred or double vision.

Causes Of Brain Tumor

Brain tumors that begin in the brain

Primary brain tumors originate in the brain itself or in the tissue close to her, like the brain, covering membranes (meninges), cranial nerves, the pituitary and pineal. Primary brain tumors begin when normal cells acquire defects (mutations) in their DNA. These mutations allow cells to grow and divide a rate increase and continue to live, when healthy cells would die. The result is a mass of abnormal cells that forms a tumor.

Primary brain tumors are much rarer than they are of secondary brain tumors, where the cancer starts elsewhere and spreads to the brain. A wide range of primary brain tumors exist. Each is named after the type of cell involved. Examples include:

Acoustic neuroma (schwannoma)

Astrocytoma, also known as gliomas, including anaplastic astrocytoma and glioblastoma

Ependymoma

Ependymoblastoma

Germ cell tumor

Medulloblastoma

Meningioma

Neuroblastoma

Oligodendroglioma

Pineoblastoma

Cancer that spreads to the brain and elsewhere

The secondary (metastatic) brain tumors are cancers arising from a cancer that begins in other parts of the body and then spread (metastasize) to the brain. Secondary brain tumors usually occur in people who have had cancer. But in rare cases, metastatic brain tumor may be the first sign of cancer that began elsewhere in the body.

Secondary brain tumors are much more common than are primary brain tumors. Any cancer can spread to the brain, but the most common types include:

Breast cancer

Colon cancer

Kidney cancer

Lung Cancer

Melanoma

Brain Tumor Overview

BRAIN TUMOR

A brain tumor is a mass or growth of abnormal cells in the brain.

Many different types of brain tumors exist. Some non-cancerous tumors of the brain (benign), and certain brain tumors are cancerous (malignant). Brain tumors can begin in your brain (primary brain tumors), or cancer can begin in other parts of the body and spreads to the brain (secondary or metastatic brain tumors).

Treatment options depend on the brain tumor that you have a brain tumor and its size and location.