What are the brain tumours and how common are they?
Primary brain tumours meaning those kind of tumours that arise from brain tissue, but no tumours that spread to the brain from elsewhere. Over one hundred and twenty six classification of the brain tumour is done by the World health Organization, so it Is not possible to cover all in a small piece of writing therefore few are about to get discussed further. Each of the brain tumour has distinct biology and therapy while Gliomas are the most common of the primary brain tumours and there are about seventeen thousand new people diagnosed each year with a malignant Glioma. Know more with Dr. Arun kumar Sharma! Origin of the Glioma Gliomas come from a type of cell in the brain called glial cell and this is not a nerve cell. The word glia means glue in Greek and actually these are the cells that hold the brain together literally and help connect the nerve cells to each other. It is the main cell in the brain and there are two predominant types called astrocytes. There are only fe