Brain cancer

HEALTH BLOG~Brain cancer is a new biological growth in the cranial cavity, which is also known as intracranial tumors. The position of the incident there are various kinds of cells, including brain, brain nerves, meningeal brain, skull, pituitary gland and other organs for metastases from metastatic brain tumors.

Because in all the cranial cavity of the bone, brain tumor grows large will cause increased pressure within the cranial cavity, which then cause symptoms of headache, vomiting, blurred vision, cramps, coma and other symptoms, the position and nature of pathological lesions of brain cancer may different as the difference in age.

How high the level of incidence and mortality rates of brain cancer?

Incidence rates of brain cancer accounts for approximately 5% of cancers throughout the body, occupying 70% rate of childhood cancer. Brain cancer can arise in a variety of age groups, at the age of 20-40 years had higher incidence rates, the ratio of brain cancer incidence rates between men and women as much as 13:10.

Worldwide every year there are approximately 18 500 people are diagnosed with brain cancer every year there are approximately 12 760 people died of brain cancer, average age of the patients who died of brain cancer was 64 years and the rate of brain cancer deaths each year is increasing.

　　Brain cancer can cause any harm?

1. Damage to brain tissue, causing interference to the nervous system, causing the body to lose normal function.

2. Incidence of edema in the brain, causing swelling of the brain, cranial cavity pressure increases because of it.

3. Edema causes severe damage in the cavity of the head, causing death and other nerve centers.

4. Symptoms of impaired sense of smell, movement becomes slow, feet and hands are not powered and other symptoms.

What are the factors that cause brain cancer?

1. Radiation factors: The wave radiation emitted by mobile phones, computers encourage the cancer cells.

2. Trauma factors: external trauma can stimulate the brain, meningeal scar tissue will lead to tumors and can accelerate the growth of brain tumors that previously existed.

3. Chemical factors: Incidence of brain cancer associated with a contact pesticide, dyes, formaldehyde and others in the long term.

4. Radiotherapy factors: Contact with exposure to radiotherapy is also one of the factors causing brain cancer.

5. Congenital factors: At the beginning of embryonic development of cells or residual ectopic tissue in the cavity of the head, has the function of differentiation and proliferation, may develop into cancer congenital brain.

6. Genetic factors: a genetic defect or mutation can cause brain cancer, approximately half of patients have a family history of brain cancer.

What are the symptoms of brain cancer?

1. Pain arising in the head four or five o'clock in the morning, patients often wake up from deep sleep, the deep sleep, headache will be heavier.

2. Symptoms of vomiting in patients with brain cancer is not accompanied by nausea and abdominal pain, also not related to eating, but that burst symptoms vomiting headache shortly after.

3. Brain tumors can cause increased brain pressure, causing the flow of blood through the veins in the eyes of non-current assets giving rise to stasis edema and injure the visual cells in the retina, resulting in decreased vision capabilities.

4. One side of the prominent eyes: One side of the eyeball to protrude forward, these symptoms are more severe, causing the eyelids can not close properly.

5. Temporal lobe at the bottom of the brain under the stimulation of brain tumor, causing the emerging phenomenon of illusory sense of smell.

6. Brain tumor pressing auditory nerve, resulting in auditory function at one side of the ear is gradually degraded.

7. The patients symptoms of epilepsy as an adult, if there is no external injuries or other causes, the first consideration of brain cancer.

What are the methods of examination of brain cancer?

1. X-ray radiography of the head: It can help to determine the presence or absence of symptoms of increased intracranial pressure, damage to parts of the skull or hyperplasia and other symptoms.

2. CT scan of the brain: It is easy to detect the lesion size, shape, number, location, density, nature and others.

3. MRI: May show the majority of brain tumors and peripheral edema around the tumor, accurately showing the location of the tumor, the size and shape.

4. Electroencephalography (EEG): Has the value of the determination of the localization of brain tumors that grow rapidly in the cerebral hemispheres, may see a decrease in amplitude and slowing frequency around the brain tumor.

5. Biochemical measurements: Against the pituitary tumor patients, especially patients anterior pituitary hormone secretion excessive, it can be confirmed by biochemical examination.

What are the conventional methods of treatment of brain cancer?

1. Treatment operations: Through surgical removal of primary tumor, with a net as possible lifting of tumor cells, avoiding cell hyperplasia.

2. Chemotherapy treatment: Due to the special structure of the blood-brain barrier in the brain, chemotherapy treatment has many limitations / obstacles, can only use a chemotherapy drug that is soluble in fat (fat-soluble) by intimal cells into tumor cells, to produce the drug effect , but the way this affects the speed and efficiency of drug function.

3. Radiotherapy treatment: Primarily using the tumor cell sensitivity to the radiation beam, based on the pathological diagnosis of brain tumor, grade of differentiation and results of imaging tests to determine the scope and size of the irradiation dose, but in the process of radiotherapy treatment can be a toxic side effect.

What are the methods of treatment of brain cancer?

Methods of treatment through food

1. Consume lots of fresh vegetables and fruit.

2. Consuming adequate amounts of protein, such as egg whites, fish, assorted nuts and processed foods than others.

3. Reduce foods that contain animal fats, eg lard, butter, cream and other foods with high cholesterol content.

4. Avoid foods that can stimulate the nervous system, such as alcohol, concentrated tea, coffee and so forth.

Through psychological methods of treatment

A. Do check back regularly to the hospital.

2. Maintain psychological (mind) is optimistic, actively coordinate with the treatment.

3. Brain cancer patients is very easy to think negatively, must often communicate with patients.

4. Often give encouragement to patients with brain cancer, helped establish confidence in the fight against cancer.

The best method of treatment of brain cancer

Through a combination of multi-disciplinary team consisting of a cancer surgeon, a pathologist, a radiation oncologist, a minimally invasive cancer, cancer care nurses and translators, as well as under conditions of disease and symptoms of brain cancer patients to consult with a healthcare provider, create a customized treatment program with the condition of the patient, greatly improve the treatment results of patients with brain cancer.

Methods characteristic of traditional Chinese medicine against brain cancer

Traditional Chinese medicine effective in regulating the overall balance, helps the body to fight cancer, boost immunity, strengthen the body's condition. Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou combines the techniques of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of other cancers, so the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine can be combined, can effectively improve cancer treatment outcomes.

Can get any support?

In practice has proved that the care and treatment of joint multi-disciplinary team consisting of surgical oncology, medical oncology, traditional Chinese medicine, pathologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists, nurses and other professional caregivers, with a team of cancer specialists of traditional medicine and western medicine known, can determine the most effective treatment program, the most suitable, most economical for the patient, thus greatly improving the treatment of cancer patients.

Multi-disciplinary joint team from the Cancer Hospital Guangzhou Modern methods of medical systems "one-stop", conduct a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of patients, with no added burden of patients, on the one hand provide comprehensive medical services are close to the patient, on the other side further improve the efficiency and medical standards. Lines of communication between doctor and patient are diverse, including consultation online, via email, telephone communications and meetings directly, providing consulting services in general for patients, helping them to efficiently fight against cancer. Treatment team consisting of doctors, nurses nurses, nutritionists and translators, can meet the various needs of patients from different levels of different countries. Given the current environment of information exchange that patients can feel better working with the hospitals for treatment.

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