Once you are diagnosed with a brain tumor, you must wonder how you would have known. More importantly, psychological factors can influence how much emphasis we attribute to our symptoms. Most people experience some of the symptoms listed below. Symptoms depend on tumor location and degree of brain irritation. From our…
Learn how physicians are researching melanoma that metastasize to other parts of the body and brain Melanoma is a specific type of skin cancer derived from melanocytes – cells responsible for skin pigment. Although these tumors can manifest as little moles on the skin, melanomas can be very aggressive and…
Many people with brain tumors will have an operation to remove as much tumor as possible. The goal is to remove what can be safely removed. The next steps may be chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. In order to explore how radiation may assist in targeting and killing brain tumor cells,…
Many people with cancers are treated differently, depending on where their cancer is found, what level the cancer is, and how the doctor decided to treat their client. Overall, Chemotherapy, or Chemo, is the treatment of choice for most cancers. However, a potential side effect of chemotherapy is the Chemo…
One of the deadliest brain tumors in children is the Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). About 10 to 20% of brain tumors in children are the DIPG. They occur in the brain stem at a region known as the pons which makes surgical removal of tumor not an option. Radiation…
You may have heard a lot of information about the Keto Diet. A Keto (or ketogenic) Diet is essentially a method of monitoring what you eat based upon eating high-fat, proper protein, and low-carbohydrate foods. (Read more details on Wikipedia’s Ketogenic Diet.) It was originally created to treat patients with…
The thought of patients laughing and joking during their brain surgery operations might seem odd. But it actually helps neurosurgeons to ensure the goals of surgery are attained. One method that is being researched is using an electrical stimulation to “evoke positive affect and anxiolysis without sedation.” This research has…
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