Preview

Brain Tumors

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
530 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Brain Tumors
Every year over twenty thousand people in the united states alone develop a brain tumor. With a survival rate of only 5.1 percent many doctors and scientists are trying very hard to help treat brain tumors. With no no reason behind why they form, brain tumors continue to be a very big threat in today’s society. In my research paper i will discuss the ins and outs about what brain tumors are and what people are doing to stop the disease the kills thousands every year.

A brain tumor is formed in the brain and affects the majority of your body such as your spine and muscles. It occurs when abnormal cells multiply in the brain creating a tumor. Depending on the location and size of the tumor some sign that you may have one include recurrent
…show more content…
Before therapy was available people simply died of brain tumors and there was nothing you could do whatsoever. Treatment varies between person to person depending on the size and placement of the tumor, but the most common treatment for brain cancer is chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Many people also tend to get surgery to remove a brain tumor but that's not always an option unless it is close to the surface of the brain.

I managed to learn a lot about brain cancer in this project and a lot about the way that cancer affects the person and people's lives. Many people's entire lives can change on dime when someone close to them gets cancer. Many people give up

their entire life to care for someone with cancer. I think that with this knowledge in mind i can better understand the severity of cancers and take a little peak into what people with cancer have to go through. Its sad to think that many people who contract brain cancer will die and if they do manage to survive it they will live with the repercussions of the disease for the rest of their life. So in the end i think that this information made me, in a small way, i bit of a better

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    2013 CT head

    • 3039 Words
    • 30 Pages

    Hydrocephalus Brain tumours Multiple sclerosis 2013 Sue Crowley The Canadian CT Head Rule head rule • will permit physicians to standardize care of patients with head injuries and to be much more selective in the use of computed tomography without jeopardizing patient care. • http://www.ohri.ca/emerg/cdr/docs/c 2013 Sue Crowley dr_cthead_poster.pdf Nonpathalogic calcifications • • • • Pineal gland Basal ganglia Choroid plexus Falx and tentorium 2013 Sue Crowley…

    • 3039 Words
    • 30 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Recurrent Glioma Paper

    • 595 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Recurrent gliomas are a challenge for the interdisciplinary neurooncology team: Independently of primary histology, most recurrences are characterized by substantial treatment resistance. Generally, the outcome from any modality is only modest. Since radiotherapy (RT) is a central part in primary treatment following neurosurgical resection or biopsy, much controversy exists regarding any additional radiation treatment. On the one hand, the fear of exceeding normal tissue tolerance and the attributed risk of symptomatic side effects have distracted radiation oncologist from delivering second courses of RT with higher doses [1-3]. Preclinical and clinical data have revealed that radiation memory of normal tissue is only limited over time, meaning…

    • 595 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    | | |term illnesses such as HIV, CJD and Huntington’s disease which can affect the brain. Brain tumours |…

    • 1432 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    According to the National Cancer Institute, “In 2015, an estimated 1,658,370 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States” (“Cancer Statistics”). What if one of those cases was your mother? Husband? Grandson? What if more horrifically, it was all three? For Mary Kenyon, that devastating thought became a reality. In just three brief years, she lost her mother, husband, and grandson. All three of them battled cancer, and two of the three died from the disease. Through strength, resilience, and a whole lot of faith, Mary overcame grief and shows true heroism by inspiring people and helping them defeat the same obstacles she faced.…

    • 1144 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Mesothelioma

    • 674 Words
    • 3 Pages

    However if mesothelioma is found early in a patient, there are treatments to prevent further rapid spread of this cancer. Currently the three forms of options for mesothelioma treatment is surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. Surgery route is mainly for patients that have early-stage mesothelioma diagnosis. Surgery can be used to remove most or all of the tumors. Also the location of the tumor can affect the surgery. The second form of treatment is chemotherapy. Chemo works by attacking the tumor cells mainly, because there are rapidly growing, like most cancer cells. Most patients after having surgery done get chemo after, so any specs of tumor that wasn’t able to removed gets attacking by chemo. Lastly, the final form of treatment is radiation therapy. Radiation is given to the patient thru a series of days or months, to remove any forms of existing…

    • 674 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    One fact the Mark Nichols says about the brain is “Scientist around the world are tackling age old mysteries of the brain and beginning to solve such puzzles as how memory works and why some people’s psyches can withstand the kind of horrific experiences that traumatize others. Mark Nichols also discusses how Canadian Researchers are trying to find a cure for neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Lou Gehrig’s Diseases, and show how to find out why brains cells don’t regenerate after injury. He talks about how the brain contains about 50 bill to 100 billion brain cells that make it very difficult to grasp what all the goes on in the brain.…

    • 515 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    A primary brain tumor is a tumor that starts directly in the brain. There are two types of primary brain tumors: a low grade and a high grade tumor. A low grade tumor grows slow, and can turn into I high grade tumor, if not treated…

    • 861 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A women named Cynthia Amendt was diagnosed with grade four Glioblastoma. She was a teacher, and at first she thought that she wasn’t going to be able to teach again as she says “ I thought my teaching days were over.” She had treatment in…

    • 683 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Annotated Bibliography

    • 1355 Words
    • 6 Pages

    any given person knows at least one person, who has suffered from cancer. Talking about cancer…

    • 1355 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    It certainly caused me to look more intuitively into how amazing the brain actually is and become exposed to revelations about brain facts and functions.…

    • 970 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The lives of most people have been impacted by cancer in some way, including my own. While my mother is a breast cancer survivor, cancer has taken the life of my paternal grandfather and the parents of multiple friends. My maternal grandfather is currently battling stage 4 bladder cancer and recently took part in a ground-breaking medical trial that’s allowed him to be cancer free for nearly a year. Developments such as this or the recent breakthrough CRISPR/Cas9 technology, which edits genes by deleting or replacing unwanted sections of the DNA sequence, excite me about the potential of a cancer free…

    • 1021 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Have you ever had an excruciating pain in your head that turns out to be a concussion. You start to wonder about your concussion because you never had one before. Then you ask yourself what is a concussion, How are they diagnose and treated, and what are the risk of them. Well in this essay you will learn all of these things that will change how you feel about concussions.…

    • 438 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    concussions

    • 958 Words
    • 4 Pages

    What is a concussion? A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury or TBI, caused by a sudden jolt, hit or blow to the head. Concussions can also occur from a fall, blow or impact to the body that causes the brain to move quickly back and forth. As a result, the injury changes the way your brain works. There is destruction of the nerves and bruising the brain itself.…

    • 958 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A Tour of the Brain

    • 718 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The brain is the control center of the human body. It is protected by the skull and is made up of three main parts, the cerebrum, the cerebellum and the Brainstem. The brain is the boss of the body, it runs the show and controls just about everything one does, even when one’s asleep. (Kidshealth, n.d.) During this brief tour guide of the brain, one will see how the brain fits into the Central Nervous System, how the main parts work together, and what would happen if one of those main parts were damaged.…

    • 718 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cancer has always been a very interesting thing to me, and it has always upset me and made curious has to how we have not found a cure for it, especially with all the technology and knowledge we have today. Early February of last year my father passed away from Glioblastoma Multiform which is a type of brain cancer that he had fought for nearly 4 years. This was a very hard time for me and my family, but was also a very large motivation push for to continue my hopes of getting into Medical School. It also was the motivation for me to research and study cancer and everything involved with it. I would like to either head my own research project or at least be apart of a research project here at USD that focuses on the study of cancer and learn more about something that is so personal and interesting to me. This is a very tough goal because there is already so much research being done on cancer, and so much already being discovered everyday. But I think that with the right people, the right idea, and the right connections here at USD, it is still something that I look forward to and hope to have the opportunity to apart of at some point of my time…

    • 803 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays