What are the different types of brain tumors

The different types of brain tumors include the following:

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There are many different types of brain tumors. They are usually categorized by the type of cell where the tumor begins, or they are also categorized by the area of the brain where they occur. The most common types of brain tumors include t…

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Click Image to Enlarge gliomas The most common type of brain tumor is a glioma. Gliomas begin from glial cells, which are the supportive tissue of the brain. There are several types of gliomas, categorized by where they are found, and the t…

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Hey! My younger sister had hodgkins lymphoma and my two uncles have brain tumors?

Q: while attemding chemo sessions with her i met 7 different people who had hodgkings that also had a family member who had or was in remission from brain cancer. Have any studies showd a corralation? Or do you know of a family who has both types of cancers?

A: Both my dad and I had lymphomas. My dad had a Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, I had Hodgkin’s Disease. We had absolutely no prior history of cancer in my family. (We do have a strong family history of heart disease.)Actually kind of surprised you met that many people with Hodgkin’s Disease (it’s fairly rare; my local hospital only had 2 other cases the year I went through chemo). I have read pretty extensively on Hodgkin’s and I’ve never heard of the correlation between brain cancer and Hodgkin’s. However, sometimes you do find clusters of cancers in families. This could be genetic or it could be due to simply being exposed to the same environmental factor.Good luck to your sister.

Active Ingredient in Marijuana Kills Brain Cancer Cells?

Q: WEDNESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) — New research out of Spain suggests that THC — the active ingredient in marijuana — appears to prompt the death of brain cancer cells.The finding is based on work with mice designed to carry human cancer tumors, as well as from an analysis of THC’s impact on tumor cells extracted from two patients coping with a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.Explaining that the introduction of THC into the brain triggers a cellular self-digestion process known as “autophagy,” study co-author Guillermo Velasco said his team has isolated the specific pathway by which this process unfolds, and noted that it appears “to kill cancer cells, while it does not affect normal cells.”Velasco is with the department of biochemistry and molecular biology in the School of Biology at Complutense University in Madrid. The findings were published in the April issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation.The Spanish researchers focused on two patients suffering from “recurrent glioblastoma multiforme,” a fast-moving form of brain cancer. Both patients had been enrolled in a clinical trial designed to test THC’s potential as a cancer therapy.Using electron microscopes to analyze brain tissue taken both before and after a 26- to 30-day THC treatment regimen, the researchers found that THC eliminated cancer cells while it left healthy cells intact.The team also was able, in what it described as a “novel” discovery, to track the signaling route by which this process was activated.These findings were replicated in work with mice, which had been “engineered” to carry three different types of human cancer tumor grafts.”These results may help to design new cancer therapies based on the use of medicines containing the active principle of marijuana and/or in the activation of autophagy,” Velasco said.Outside experts suggested that more research is needed before advocating marijuana as a medicinal intervention for brain cancer.Dr. John S. Yu, co-director of the Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program in the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said the findings were “not surprising.””There have been previous reports to this effect as well,” he said. “So this is yet another indication that THC has an anti-cancer effect, which means it’s certainly worth further study. But it does not suggest that one should jump at marijuana for a potential cure for cancer, and one should not urge anyone to start smoking pot right away as a means of curing their own cancer.”But that’s exactly what many brain cancer patients have been doing, said Dr. Paul Graham Fisher, the Beirne Family director of Neuro-Oncology at Stanford University.”In fact, 40 percent of brain tumor patients in the U.S. are already using alternative treatments, ranging from herbals to vitamins to marijuana,” he said. “But that actually points out a cautionary tale here, which is that many brain cancer patients are already rolling a joint to treat themselves, but we’re not really seeing brain tumors suddenly going away as a result, which we clearly would’ve noticed if it had that effect. So we need to be open-minded. But this suggests that the promise of THC might be a little over-hoped, and certainly requires further investigation before telling people to go out and roll a joint.”

A: Well good! Maybe people will start to be a little more open minded when it comes to using marijuana and hemp as alternate forms of medicine and other things! What a blessing that would be to find a cure for brain cancer!

Do brain surgeries usually go well?

Q: My boyfriend’s mom was diagnosed with brain cancer and her surgery is this week. They’re taking out the brain tumor and said that it is possible that the whole left side of her body will be paralyzed. Do brain surgeries usually go well and do you think she’ll heal from the surgery without any complications? She’s had different types of cancer before and has made it through it all. She’s very strong.

A: What you are stating here is not really making a lot of sense. Generally people don’t get different types of cancer; it’s not like an infection that eventually goes away. If she had one type of cancer, then all her other cancers were the same cancer, just spread. It’s called metastasizing and now it’s spread to her brain. It seems if drs were concerned she’d be paralyzed, they would do chemo or radiation first to shrink the tumor size. Most people who have brain tumors excised, aren’t paralyzed afterwards. My brain surgery went very well, as did others I’ve met that have also had brain cancer.