One of the earliest symptoms of brain tumors is headache. If recurrent headaches are accompanied by nausea and vomiting, a specialist should be consulted.
The most common brain tumors are malignant, and today's technology has made it possible to reduce complications and intervene in the tumor in the shortest way with the least damage using navigation.
A brain tumor can arise from the brain's own cells, but it can also develop from cancer elsewhere, or from metastasis, when the tumor's cells are thrown into the brain through the bloodstream.
Some brain tumors are genetic, while others are caused by genetic mutations and problems in molecular biology. Some tumors are familial, while the causes of others are unknown.
Don't Ignore Recurrent Headache
Since brain tumors are space-occupying lesions in the brain, when they occupy space, something that should not be in the brain is there, increasing the pressure in the brain, so headache is one of the early symptoms. In addition, depending on the location of the brain tumors, the symptoms of the brain tumors are caused by the pressure on the centers. Sometimes a force causes a defect. Sometimes brain tumors can be manifested by a headache. Sometimes headache may be accompanied by headache, nausea and vomiting due to increased pressure in the brain. Therefore, if there are such symptoms that recur at certain intervals, if there is a pain in a certain place that you can show with your hand, it is absolutely necessary to investigate it. If the pain persists and is accompanied by nausea, if there is weakness on the one hand, if there is a facial symptom, this should be investigated. One of the simplest investigations is tomography and MRI. Of course, one thing that should not be forgotten in this work is that the patient's examination must be evaluated and the patient's history must be evaluated by a neurosurgeon and neurologist. Apart from these, there may also be lesions in the brain caused by inflammatory conditions. It is possible to distinguish these with laboratory findings, i.e. blood tests.
Most Common Malignancies!
Malignant brain tumors are more common. There are many types of tumors and they vary according to their degree. Benign tumors are tumors that can be peeled off, separated from normal tissue, sometimes have a capsule formation around it or can be very well separated from brain tissue. On the other hand, malignant tumors are those that penetrate into the brain and you cannot capture the cells individually, you cannot see them, they do not have a certain boundary, they do not have a certain capsule. They can penetrate into the brain like finger extensions or they can infiltrate the brain cell by cell by cell. For example, mud is spilled on a carpet. You remove the mud, but the remaining dust sticks to the pile. In brain tumors, if malignant cells are removed, normal cells are also removed from the brain. Therefore, experts have to stop when normal cells are seen. But within the normal cells, these tumor cells continue and they grow again. A tumor that is removed one day may be completely closed the next day and may reproduce there.
Precautions should be taken in familial tumors
Some brain tumors can be identified when they are small, while others may not show any symptoms at all. After a person hits his/her head, he/she may accidentally find out that he/she has a brain tumor while having an X-ray to see if there is bleeding in his/her head. There are familial inherited tumors. In familial transitional tumors, if it is seen in any relative, familial transitional tumors must be screened. Not all tumors are familial. But if there is a death in the family due to a tumor that is not clear what it is, that family should be more careful. Some tumors have genetic transmission.
Diagnostic Methods Improved, Diagnosis and Diagnosis Made Easier
50 years ago, brain tumors could not be diagnosed because there were no such widespread diagnostic methods, but now the average age of people has increased to 79, at the same time coronary by-passes and stents have become widespread and deaths have decreased, as a result of the brain living for a long time, it has been observed that there are quite a lot of brain tumors in the elderly. 50 years ago, because there were not such widespread methods, they could not be diagnosed and people were dying at a young age for other reasons. For example, 50 years ago 55 years old was old, now 55 years old is almost classified as young. For example, metastatic tumors or benign tumors are more common in advanced ages. It can be operated at any age.
Awake Brain Surgery
There is currently no scientifically proven link between cell phone use and brain tumors. When we look at the general patient profile in neurosurgery, the biggest fear of patients is paralysis that may occur after surgery. There is fear of paralysis in the face, arm and leg, but also fear of death. The patient is made to talk with awake anesthesia by only relieving pain without putting the patient to sleep. The patient is also made to move their hands and feet. Therefore, in tumors close to motor centers, awake anesthesia is performed to protect the patient.
They Intervene in Brain Tumors with Navigation
In brain tumor surgeries, neurophysiological EMG aims to prevent possible complications by using technological possibilities that precisely intervene in tumors that are close to motor centers or nerves in patients. With the functional MRI of the MRI, the proximity of brain tumors is examined to see how far away they are and where to stop. Therefore, it is possible to reduce complications. Now, the lesions that need to be removed are reached and removed from there by taking the shortest route with navigation and causing less damage, without coming from small places, opening less space and destroying more tissue, and all these measures reduce the problems that may occur in patients.