The brain is part of the nervous system along with the spinal cord and made up of nervous tissue. The brain controls basic body functions and coordinates responses. Brain cancer occurs when malignant cancer cells arise in the brain tissue, and the cells grow to form a tumour in the brain that can affect brain functions like memory, and control of your own body. There are 4 levels of brain cancer, from 1 being a benign tumour and 4 being a malignant tumour with the cells growing very quickly.
Treatment for brain cancer is very risky to treat because the brain is such an important organ, and without it you would never have basic body function again. About 22,850 new people per year are diagnosed with brain cancer and of those people there will be about 15,320 deaths. That's a 67% death rate, which shows you just how risky brain cancer is.
If you have a job in an oil refinery, handle jet fuel or chemicals like benzene, are a chemist, embalmer, or rubber-industry workers you could be more prone to brain cancer.
There have also been other risk factors such as smoking, radiation exposure, and viral infection (HIV) have been suggested but not proven to cause brain cancer. There's actually a whole ongoing debate that cell phones cause brain cancer but there was no proof.
Common symptoms are nausea, vominting, dizziness, headaches, blurry vision, or a change in a person's alertness, mental capacity, memory, speech, or personality or hallucinations. The thing is these can happen easily without having a brain tumour, and just cause you have these symptoms it doesn mean you have cancer. Some brain cancers have little or no symptoms. For example, Glioblastoma Multiform is one of the most common types of brain cancers and this specific cancer has very few symptoms is very hard to detect.
Brain cancer is such a diverse disease which is why its so hard and risky to treat, and why so many people are searching for a cure not only for brain cancer but all cancers in general.
Treatment for brain cancer is very risky to treat because the brain is such an important organ, and without it you would never have basic body function again. About 22,850 new people per year are diagnosed with brain cancer and of those people there will be about 15,320 deaths. That's a 67% death rate, which shows you just how risky brain cancer is.
If you have a job in an oil refinery, handle jet fuel or chemicals like benzene, are a chemist, embalmer, or rubber-industry workers you could be more prone to brain cancer.
There have also been other risk factors such as smoking, radiation exposure, and viral infection (HIV) have been suggested but not proven to cause brain cancer. There's actually a whole ongoing debate that cell phones cause brain cancer but there was no proof.
Common symptoms are nausea, vominting, dizziness, headaches, blurry vision, or a change in a person's alertness, mental capacity, memory, speech, or personality or hallucinations. The thing is these can happen easily without having a brain tumour, and just cause you have these symptoms it doesn mean you have cancer. Some brain cancers have little or no symptoms. For example, Glioblastoma Multiform is one of the most common types of brain cancers and this specific cancer has very few symptoms is very hard to detect.
Brain cancer is such a diverse disease which is why its so hard and risky to treat, and why so many people are searching for a cure not only for brain cancer but all cancers in general.