BRAIN CARE

Brain is the most important organ that controls the functions of the body in an effective manner. It will be affected by diseases like brain tumor and cancer. Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal in brain. It will lead to an abnormal stage by the uncontrolled cell division normally in the brain itself. Brain tumor will circulate through the bloodstream and gets deposited in the brain. The secondary tumor of the brain is lung cancer, breast cancer , malignant melanoma, kidney cancer and colon cancer. The most reason for the secondary brain tumors are the most tumor in the intracranial cavity.  The various treatments for brain tumor are categorized as surgical resection,surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy. The surgery for brain tumor is the complete or partial dissection of the tumor with the main goal of removing the possible tumor cells. The main aim of radiation therapy is to selectively kill tumor cells while leaving normal brain tissue unharmed. Depending on the tumor this process is repeated for a total of 10 to 30 treatments. The chemotherapy is the administered drugs to kill tumor cells. Some new treatments available are gene therapy, highly focused radiation therapy, immunotherapy and novel chemotherapies.

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