Brain Tumor Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

Knowledge about brain tumor can help us to identify it in early stage, precaution and knowledge can save us. We have visited brain tumor surgeon and collected some vital information, going to share in this blog post.

A mass or growth of abnormal cells in your brain is simply known as Brain Tumor, This growth may be uncontrolled and some time gets worse.

Causes of Brain Tumor:

What causes brain cells to start growing and dividing differently from healthy cells, forming a high grade or low grade tumour is not yet understood.

There are over 130 different primary brain and spinal tumours which are grouped and named according to the type of cell they grow from, their location in the brain and how quickly they are likely to grow and spread. Brain tumors are categorised in many different ways some of them are shown bellow.
  • Acoustic neuroma
  • Astrocytoma
  • Glioblastoma
  • Glioma
  • Medulloblastoma
Primary brain tumors originate in the brain itself or in tissues close to it, such as in the brain-covering membranes, cranial nerves, pituitary gland or pineal gland.

Primary brain tumors begin when normal cells acquire errors in their DNA. These mutations allow cells to grow and divide at increased rates and to continue living when healthy cells would die. The result is a mass of abnormal cells, which forms a tumor.

Treatments of Brain Tumor:

Instead reading musch about the treatment you should consult with Neurosurgery specialist such as Dr. Mukesh Pandey, have been working and healing tomor patients from many years.

According to the experts, surgery is the usual treatment for most brain tumors. To remove a brain tumor, a neurosurgeon makes an opening in the skull. This operation is called a craniotomy.
Whenever possible, the surgeon attempts to remove the entire tumor. If the tumor cannot be completely removed without damaging vital brain tissue, your doctor may remove as much of the tumor as possible.

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