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 few potential risk factors that have been ever identified and the main one is of that prior radiation therapy. So some people may have received the radiation therapy to the head or neck region for another purpose perhaps years before and then that will increase their risk if a subsequent brain tumour. Consult with the Best neurologist doctor in Dubai!

 

There are other things that have been described in the literature such as head trauma or petroleum exposure, but all these things have been really been inconclusive and the relationship with the brain tumour if any is really very weak. Cell phones are not been proved to be responsible for the development of the brain tumours. A brain tumours is rarely a part of the genetic syndrome.

The brain tumour is particularly challenging organ of the body to have a tumour. It is not a homogeneous organ the way the lung, colon or liver is, so you could take out the left lung and one can survive with the right lung. It does not compromise any way your ability to get oxygen but for the brain this thing is not true and symptoms from a brain tumour are related not just to the size of the tumour, but most importantly to the tumour location and this becomes a big issue from a therapeutic point of view as well. See a prominent Brain Tumor Doctor in Dubai!

 

So the brain is a compartmentalized organ and one of the problem that we face is that healthy parts of the brain cannot necessarily assume the function of a part of the brain that is sick or not working well, so unlike the function of single lung accommodating the loss of the right lung, the brain cannot function in half of the size with left or right alone.