When tumors are found in your brain, they can be either benign or malignant. Benign tumor has no cancer cells while malignant tumor has cancer cells that grow very quickly. Some of the symptoms of brain tumors are the following: * Worse headaches in the morning * Nausea and vomiting * Significant changes in the [...]
There is a disease that grows malignant cells in the brain – it is called brain cancer. It is a life-threatening disease that is the leading cause of death in our country. Statistics say that 35,000 Americans were diagnosed with primary brain cancer in 2004, and another 150,000 people with brain tumors have already spread [...]
In 2005, the results of a seven-year study by the European Ramazzini Foundation for cancer research in Italy demonstrated that the chemical sweetener, aspartame , “induces an increase in lymphomas and leukemias in female rats.” This study, involving 1800 rats, demonstrated that aspartame administered at varying levels in feed causes a statistically significant increase of [...]
Scientists have been trying to find out why certain brain tumors react well to chemotherapy and others don’t, what do they find? Cancer stem cells of course, one of the super-cells of the human body that has already been responsible for some of the world’s most revolutionary treatments for our many diseases. They are capable [...]
The result of multi-disciplinary studies in NASA that has produced an electronic nose that is very reliable in monitoring air quality in the confined space of the space shuttle and the International Space Station where clean air is a must. The electronic nose has proven to be so successful that it is being studied for [...]
Image Source: utmem.edu There are different types of brain tumours but a specific type of brain tumour called an acoustic neuroma, sometimes referred to as a vestibular schwannoma or neurilemoma is a benign tumour that develops from the lining of the auditory nerve or the acoustic nerve which is responsible for balance and hearing. They [...]
image source: www.science.nationalgeographic.com There are two main types of brain tumors: those that start in the brain (primary) and those that spread from cancer somewhere else in the body (metastasis). Primary brain tumors happen less often, and when they do, they are mostly malignant (cancerous). A malignant tumor is a mass or clump of cancer [...]
The secondary brain tumor occurs when cancer starts from another part of your body and starts to spread in your brain. Some may occur when the person has a history of cancer when a brain tumor is discovered. Brain cancer can occur at any age between 3-12 and 40-70 years old. Ever since researchers have [...]
Researchers have found that the main cause of brain cancer is due to mutations of the DNA of the genes, thus proving that brain cancer is genetic. There are two types of brain cancer: Primary brain tumors, that originates in the brain or close to it and secondary (metastatic) brain tumors that starts from another [...]