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| | Title: | What are brain tumors? | | Article: | What are brain tumors?
Almost twenty thousands people are diagnosed with brain tumor every year. Tumors may be benign or malignant.
Benign brain tumors are removed by a surgeon with expectation that they do not come back. Surgeon can relatively easy distinguish benign brain tumor form healthy tissue. However benign brain tumors press on the brain around. Since the brain is packed in your skull os tight, any small compression of healthy brain will cause loss of some function. nearby areas of the brain suffer mostly.
Cancer cells make malignant brain tumors . Malignant brain tumor grows into the healthy brain usually. Sometimes it may be encapsulated. Encapsulated tumors are easier to remove. Benign tumor that compress and area fo brain with vital function often becomes deadly.
Surgeon classify brain tumors from low grade to high grade. High grades are more dangerous.
Symptoms of brain tumors are caused by compression of a specific area, by increased pressure in the tightly packed skull and by blocking of flow of cerebrospinal fluid.
The suspicious symptoms are:
Headaches that worse in the morning
Seizures
Weakness
Loss of sensations
Nausea
Vomiting
Sleepiness
Lack of coordination
Unsteady gait
Personality problems
Memory loss
Broken speech.
To diagnose brain tumor, surgeon uses variety of methods, including neural exam, looking into your eyes, angiogram, MRI, PET and CT scan.
The treatment for majority of brain tumors is brain surgery. Additional methods are: chemotherapy, radiation therapy, stereotactic surgery and immune therapy.
| | Author: | Aleksandr Kavokin, MD, PhD | | System: | Brain | | Subject: | Tumor | | Abstract: | Symptoms of brain tumors are caused by compression of a specific area, by increased pressure in the tightly packed skull and by blocking of flow of cerebrospinal fluid. | | Website: | www.kavokin.com | | Time: | 19:37 | | Reference: | www.rdoctor.com | | Reference 2: | |
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