Brain Cancer

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Brain Cancer is a mass growth of the abnormal cell in the brain. Which has 200,000 cases per year in the U.S. It affects mostly older people like the range 60 and Older but any age can get affected by Brain Cancer?The most common brain tumors are gliomas, meningiomas, pituitary adenomas, vestibular schwannomas, and primitive neuroectodermal.Brain Cancer starts with a brain tumor which can be found by a Mri scan. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a test that uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to make pictures of organs and structures inside the body. I Myself have been in an MRI machine it looks like a big white tube where you going inside and stay still for 30 Minutes while the machine scans your whole body. The machine …show more content…
The cause of most Brain cancer is unknown but it can be caused by Genetic, environmental factors . Radiation, HIV and even Smoking can all lead to getting brain cancer. I believe that we are in the break of find out the cure for cancer. Cancer has been traced all the way back to 3000 B.C. Fossilised bones and the mummies of Egypt show evidence of tumours. It incredible how been found all the way back to B.C technology which I know is amazing.

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 Case Study of Cancer
A girl Name Sarah at the age 15 suddenly became deaf from one ear. A hot summer day her mom called and she couldn't hear mom on the phone so she told her mom to get the phone fix but then she put it on the other ear Sarah heard it perfectly fine. Sarah thought she had water on her ear but so she waited two weeks kept trying and trying nothing happened. So Sarah parent finally decided to take her to the Otorhinolaryngology (Ear Doctor). The Doctor just told her she went deaf in one ear because of a virus did do not MIR on her she told she was deaf.
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She became more tired before she got diagnosed she was more active she would cook clean the house take the kids to school all on a daily basis. But now she doesn't even wake up on time to take the kids to school. She doesn't work anymore. It changed her life a lot. Now all she do is cook and clean but it, not the same food she used to make. It's just not the same. Even when she cleans it's a struggle for her. I hope it in the genetic and I somehow get

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