Brain Cancer
Laura Knoll & Makayla Gertken
Symptoms
Most symptoms of brain cancer can include seizures, difficult walking, headaches, weakness, clumsiness, nausea, vomiting, abnormalities in vision, and difficulty sleeping. These common side effects may cause other issues, like brain cell loss and heart problems.
Treatments
Chemotherapy Injection
Chemotherapy is often given as an injection.
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Chemotherapy Pills
Surgery
Surgery for brain cancer include biopsy, craniotomy, craniectomy, debulking, partial removal ,complete removal, shunt, and ommaya reservoir.
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Radiation treatment
There is three types of radiation treatments for brain cancer:
- External beam radiation therapy
- Internal radiation therapy
- Systemic radiation therapy
Survival rate
Males have a 31.4% chance of surviving brain cancer.
History
Causes
Benign brain tumor:
- Usually benign brain tumors can be removed
- Benign brain tumors have an obvious border or edge
- Benign brain tumors may become malignant
- Benign brain tumors do not contain cancer cells
Malignant brain tumor:
- Generally more life threatening
- Likely to grow rapidly and crowd healthy brain tissue
- Cancer may break from the tumor and spread throughout the body
- Rarely spreads throughout the body
- contains cancer cells
Tumor Grades
Grade I: Tissue is benign, looks nearly normal
Grade II: Tissue is malignant, cells look less than normal
Grade III: Cells look very different and are growing rapidly
Grade IV: Cells look most abnormal and grow quickly
Grades I and II are the lower grades, meaning they look about normal and grow slowly,
grades III and IV are the higher grades, meaning they look abnormal and grow rapidly.
Over time low grades may become high grades.
Risk factors
- Ionizing radiation: A high dose of x-rays and other sources can cause cell damage that leads to a tumor.
- Family history: It's rare for brain tumors to run in a family.
Discovered
Finsen lamp
Personal story
2075
Sources
http://abc2.org/guidance/brain-cancer-facts/tumor-grades-and-types?gclid=CMfG0vvzqcwCFQIOaQod1d0D6A
http://abc2.org/guidance/brain-cancer-facts/risk-factors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radiation_therapy
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