Brain Tumour Info
What you may want to know:
There are a many different types of brain tumours, and it is crucial to understand that no two tumours are alike. There are a multitude of factors that determine prognosis, such as genetic composition, location of the tumour, age and cognition and an individual’s general well - being. Since no two people are the same, it stands to reason that all of the variances will play their own part in the survival of brain tumour patients.
The most comon symptoms are:
- headaches,
- feeling sick,
- drowsy,
- fits
- and sometimes a strange taste or smell.
The symptoms experienced depend on where the tumour is in the brain. The cause is unknown.
The tests that are carried out are most usually a CT scan and MRI scan (these are just different types of body scan that enable the medical staff to see differing views of, in this case the brain) and biopsies to diagnose a brain tumour .
Brain tumours may be treated in various ways and it depends on the type of tumour and also where it is situated within the brain. A person may have surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, steroids or a combination.
Brain tumours can be either primary or secondary.
Primary meaning that they (tumour/cancer) have started in the brain.
Secondary meaning they (tumour/cancer)have started elsewhere in the body and moved to the brain.
The brain controls everything that we do and is the approximate size of a cabbage/cauliflower.
