Brain Tumors Can Be Defeated With Multi-Disciplinary Approach
The brain is a sophisticated, elegant and an elaborate mass of tissue and nerve cells. It seamlessly controls our senses, our personality, helps regulate vital body functions and controls how we move in our surroundings.
When abnormal cells grow in the brain to develop a tumor, it can disrupt how we function and will require the ‘right’ treatment considerations that balance how the tumor is treated with how well our brain operates. Right treatment for brain tumor, however, needs a multi-disciplinary approach including intensive rehabilitation and post operative care, which is rarely available under a single roof.
To understand more about brain tumors and its care, let’s first
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These are only some of the reasons why a tumor in the brain is so complicated. Brain tumor is classified based on the origination of tumor cells, and whether they are malignant (cancerous) or benign (non-cancerous). While benign tumors are the least aggressive, has clear borders and originates from cells within or surrounding the brain that do not spread into other tissue; malignant tumors do not have clear borders and contain cancer cells that grow rapidly and invade surrounding brain tissue.
Primary & Secondary Brain Tumors
Primary Brain Tumor: A tumor that originates in the brain is called a primary brain tumor. Most brain tumors in children are primary tumors
Secondary Brain Tumor begins in another part of the body and then spread to the brain. These tumors are more common than primary brain tumors and are named by the location in which they originated.
Treatment for secondary brain tumors depends on where the cancer started and the extent of the disease.
Symptoms
Some people may have symptoms that suggest there is a brain tumor, others have no obvious symptoms. Usually, patients experience long-term headaches (usually worse in the morning), vision changes or visual disturbances, fits/seizures/convulsions, difficulty thinking and speaking or finding words, personality changes, tingling or stiffness in one side of the body, problems balancing or walking, nausea, and/or