Brain tumor

Cancer cells can break away from the primary tumor site and travel through blood and lymphatic vessels. This is how cancer cells spread, or metastasize, to another part of the body, such as the brain. These tumors can develop when a patient’s primary cancer, while still undetectable at its original site, sends out metastatic cells that travel to the brain and establish themselves there. Most cancer patients are actually at risk of having their tumor spread to multiple sites.…

Pediatric brain tumors have always been a great interest of mine. I find it devastating hearing the news of a child with a brain tumor because often times they are fatal. The complexity of brain tumors and the impact they play on the functions of one’s body are life changing. For this reason, I was interested in researching a charity that raises money to find a cure or prevention for brain tumors in children. The two organizations I chose to research were American Brain Tumor Association,…

Usually, when children have malignant brain tumors, they will need radiation therapy to try to stop the malignant cells from spreading. Doctors try their hardest to postpone radiational therapy in children as it may generate long-term brain effects. When radiation therapy is used, the radiational energy transmitted to the tumor area can affect abnormal tissue as well as normal tissue, which can induce problems. The more tissue area that the doctors choose to radiate, the higher the chance…

most aggressive and most common primary brain tumor, but it isn’t quite that simple. GBM has quite a complex background and can start in many different ways, so that’s why I feel I should start from the very beginning of GBM so that you can fully understand what it is all about. Let me start by saying that GBM is the highest grade of glioma brain tumors, so it only makes sense for me to tell where GBM and glioma tumors come from. A glioma is a type of brain tumor that grows from glial cells,…

Glioblastoma Gliomas account for more than 70% of all brain tumors, and of these, glioblastoma is the most frequent and malignant histologic type (Ohgaki and Kleihues, 2007). Despite scientific advances, the average life expectancy of patients is nearly 15 months with poor life quality (Field et al., 2015). There are few treatments available for newly diagnosed patients; the most common is surgical removal of the tumor followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Based on multiple studies, there…

Brain Metastasis from Colorectal Cancer: A single center Experience Colorectal Cancer, also known as Colon Cancer is a disease that occurs in the Colon or Rectum. Sometimes when a Polyp, which are tissue growth on the outside or inside of a cell, increases or gets bigger it can spread to the outer layer of the cell causing a cancerous tumor. CRC is known to be the fourth leading cause of death in the United States due to Cancer. With treatments of CRC it has improved the incidence reports of…

Problem: The Glioblastoma brain Tumor or Brain cancer are quite difficult to treat, even after the treatment with chemotherapy or removal of tumor by surgery it recurs. Nearly 70,000 people are diagnosed with brain tumor every year in US alone. Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNA’s) are in the under testing phase for curing cancer. Introduction: When a cell malfunctions and keeps multiplying and forms a mass of tissue, a tumor is formed. A normal cell in a body die and are replaced by a new one. But…

People question. How it is caused?, how can it be treated?, what symptoms could occur through brain cancer? Many people suffer from a type of cancer. One cancer that is good to learn is, brain cancer. You can’t walk to a local store and ask for medicine to cure this disease. To treat brain cancer you may have to visit your local doctor. This disease takes a process that may slowly progress like a turtle going to the shore. Some people have it for a lifetime. But some live with it for a short…

The biggest red flag in Whitman’s case in the presence of a brain tumor that was pressing against his amgydala (Midd, 2000). The amgydala is a small structure in the frontal lobe of the brain that helps to regulate emotions. There are close ties between the amgydala, psychopathy, and lack of emotion (Bartol, 2011). This concerns Whitman because to shoot down your loving wife…

the most. When she kept forgetting to bake the cookies when she thought she did, or when she kept forgetting what day it was, we knew that something was wrong. The call came on a bright and sunny Sunday afternoon. Grandma was diagnosed with Brain Tumors that were too large to treat, and lung cancer that had been undetected for years. My grandma underwent chemo therapy that made her very weak. All throughout this hard journey, she always,…