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Brain Cancer: Jad Zureikat Laith Musharbash

Brain cancer is a fatal disease that occurs when abnormal cells form in the brain. The causes of brain cancer are largely unknown. Treatment for brain cancer is individualized for each patient based on factors like age, health status, tumor size, location, type and grade. Brain cancer can directly destroy brain cells and damage them through other mechanisms. There are over 120 types of brain cancer with gliomas being the most common.

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Brain Cancer: Jad Zureikat Laith Musharbash

Brain cancer is a fatal disease that occurs when abnormal cells form in the brain. The causes of brain cancer are largely unknown. Treatment for brain cancer is individualized for each patient based on factors like age, health status, tumor size, location, type and grade. Brain cancer can directly destroy brain cells and damage them through other mechanisms. There are over 120 types of brain cancer with gliomas being the most common.

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Brain Cancer

Jad Zureikat
Laith Musharbash
7WR

Information about brain cancer


Brain Cancer is a fatal disease
that occurs when abnormal cells
form with the brain.
The causes of brain cancer is
unknown.

How to treat brain cancer


Treatment for brain cancer should
be individualized for each patient.
Treatment plans are based on the
patient's age and general health
status as well as the size,
location, type, and grade of the
tumor.

Tumors can directly destroy brain


cells. They can also damage cells
by producing inflammation,
placing pressure on other parts of
the brain, and increasing within
the skull

In the US, about 2000 children and adolescents younger than


20 years of age are diagnosed with malignant brain tumors
each year. Higher incidence rates were reported in 198594
than in 197583
The brain and spinal cord together make up the central
nervous system (CNS). Cancer can begin in the CNS or, more
commonly, it can spread there.
Primary brain tumors are tumors that form from cells within
the brain. Not all primary brain tumors are the same. Primary
brain tumors can be divided into malignant or benign tumors

More Information about brain cancer


The brain is the control center for vital
functions of the body, including speech,
movement, thoughts, feelings, memory,
vision, hearing and more so if it the brain gets
harmed the whole body gets harmed

How Brain Cancer develops


The brain and spinal cord together make up
the central nervous system (CNS). Cancer can
begin in the CNS or, more commonly, it can
spread there.
Primary brain tumors are tumors that form
from cells within the brain. Not all primary
brain tumors are the same. Primary brain
tumors can be divided into malignant or
benign tumors

Types of brain cancer


There are more than 120 types of brain
cancer.
The most common primary brain tumors are
called gliomas, which originate in the glial
(supportive) tissue.

Brain Cancer Signs And Symptoms


Not all brain tumors cause symptoms, and
some (such as tumors of the pituitary gland,
some of which cause no symptoms) are found
mainly after death, with the death not caused
by the brain tumors.

Brain Cancer Causes.


As with tumors elsewhere in the body, the exact
cause of most brain tumors is unknown.
Radiation to the head
An inherited (genetic) risk
HIV infection
Cigarette smoking
Environmental toxins (for example, chemicals
used in oil refineries, embalming chemicals,
rubber industry chemicals)

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