The Fight against Brain Cancer, unwitting

Like various other tumors in the body, the exact cause of most brain cancer to date unknown. Various genetic factors, toxins – toxin derived from the environment and smoke does have relation with brain cancer. However, in many cases, the more obvious cause was not found.

Primary brain cancer

Brain consists of many different cell types. Some brain cancer occurs when the cells of one type are changed from its normal. Changes that make the cells grow and grow abnormally. When cells that are not normal it was growing, the cells that will become tumors.

A brain tumor that forms from this process is called a primary brain cancer tumors, because it comes from within the brain itself or derived from the surrounding tissue, such as brain membrane (which serves to protect the central nervous system), cranial nerves ( consisting of 12 knot of nerves that acts as a vital move muscles in the head, like a muscle to move the sense), the pituitary gland (the parent of all the glands of the human body owned, producing growth hormone, as well as some hormones other governing functions of the thyroid gland, adrenal, and gonads) or pineal gland (to produce hormone melatonin).

Some primary brain tumors are a common glioma (including astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, and ependymomas), meningiomas, pituitary adenoma, primitive vestibular schwannoma tumor neuroectodermal, and primitive (medulloblastoma). Naming the type of primary brain tumors that are mostly based on the part of the brain where the growth of the tumor or the name of a type of brain cells that influence on the occurrence of tumor it is.

Cancer that starts from other parts of the body and then spread to the brain
This cancer is referred to as secondary brain tumors usually occur in people who never had cancer. However, in some cases, a rare brain tumor that has spread thus became the first marker that cancer has begun to spread in your body. Secondary brain tumors are much more known than primary brain tumors. Any cancer can spread to the brain, but the most common is breast cancer, large intestine (colon), kidney, lung, cancer, and melanoma (skin cancer).

Not all brain tumors showed symptoms, even in some types of tumors (such as a tumor in the pituitary gland) symptoms are not found anything until someone died. Brain cancer symptoms very much and not specific. That is, the symptoms that arise could be caused by another disease. The only way to ascertain whether a symptom is a symptom of brain cancer is to undergo diagnostic tests.

A variety of symptoms that may be caused by:
A tumor that presses or out of other parts of the brain and creates parts that do not function normally
Swelling of the brain caused by tumors or inflammation in the surrounding
Good primary brain cancer or metastatic brain cancer who have had the same symptoms.

A variety of symptoms that most often arise, namely:
Dizziness, weakness, feeling giddy (restless), it's hard walking, seizures

While a wide variety of symptoms are not specific, i.e.:
•    the changes in concentration, memory, attention, and alertness, nausea, vomiting, abnormal vision, difficulty talking, changes in emotional or intellectual ability gradually
•    In many people, these symptoms happen slowly so that it escapes the attention both by the person concerned are exposed to brain cancer or family parties. Sometimes, a variety of symptoms that appear suddenly. In some cases, that guy looks like a had a stroke.

Visit a doctor if you experience any of the following symptoms:
• Nausea or vomiting without an obvious cause (particularly in people middle-aged or elderly)
• Changes in vision or troubled with other sense
• Often lethargic and Sleepy's mental state Changes, such as the continued problematic sleepy, in memory of, or the inability to concentrate
• seizures
• feel dizzy different than usual. Dizziness is indeed a common symptom of brain cancer, but the dizziness will not appear if the progression of the disease is not yet serious. If the dizziness happened other than that usually, the doctor will suggest you to hospital.
• If you already have a brain tumor or sudden symptoms, we recommend You immediately to the emergency at the hospital.
• Difficulty in speaking or expressing themselves
• changes in behavior or personality
• It is difficult to walk or feel giddy/restless
• suddenly stricken with fever, especially after chemotherapy

If you've been diagnosed with a brain tumor, you will be referred to specialists such as:
• Neurological (brain damage specialist)
• Oncologist (who did the cancer treatment)
• Oncologist radiation (the use of radiation to treat cancer)
• Neuro-oncologist (specialist in cancers of the nervous system)
• neurosurgeon (surgery on the brain and nervous system)
• physical medicine and rehabilitation Specialist

Since the time of the meeting with the doctor who limited while many who would like to ask you, you better prepare yourself by doing the following things:
• When making a doctor's appointment, make sure everything you need to do before meeting with doctors, such as fasting or some other provisions.
• Write down any symptoms you are experiencing, including symptoms that don't seem to relate to Your disease.
• Write down important information about yourself, including any changes that have recently taken place.
• Make a list of all medications, including vitamins or supplements you consume.
• better you accompanied by family or friends. Sometimes it's hard to remember all the information provided during the consultation. Someone who accompanies you will help to remember things you might forget.
• Write down the questions that you will tell the doctor. Starting from the most important. For a brain tumor, some basic questions you need to ask are:

o what types of the brain tumor?
o where the layout of my brain tumor?
o how much my brain tumor?
o how aggressive brain tumor I that?
o Does my brain tumors including cancer?
o do I need to undergo another examination?
o What are the treatment options that are available to me?
o Whether a treatment that can cure brain tumor?
o what is the best treatment for me?
o are there side effects from the treatment that I'll get more money?
o should I consult a specialist doctor? How much does it cost and what will be guaranteed insurance?
o is there a brochure or other reading material that I can take home? What site the do doctor recommend?
o should I come again?
o is there a support group of patients who can I contact?
o various questions above are just a few examples, you can add a list of your questions.

Prepare yourself to answer the questions the doctor
The time of the consultation, the doctor will usually ask a number of questions such as:
• When you first feel the symptoms of it?
• What are the symptoms that take place continuously or only occasionally?
• how heavy you feel the symptoms of it?
• According to Your estimate, what are the things that make that symptom improve?
• According to Your estimate, what are the things that aggravate the symptoms of it?
Your readiness in answering the questions the doctor will quickly leave time consulting that you can use to ask other things that still need to ask you.

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