Question 1

help please! is brain tumor grade 3 curable ?

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It is possible, but : Higher grade tumors are more aggressive and generally harder to control or cure. 

Please make sure to have a team of physicians working together to optimize a plan of treatment which may include surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

That will provide the best possible plan for fighting this tumor.

Question 2

is it true that brainstem glioma is a curable brain tumor?

Accepted Answer

Depends: Some gliomas in the stem are focal and low grade, and may be located in places where they can be operated upon successfully and safely.   However "brainstem glioma" is most often used to describe diffuse infiltrating pontine gliomas, which are high grade and almost always fatal.  These are most commonly seen in children.

Question 3

hello
my brother suffering from brain tumor which is  5mm  in size. is it easily curable from medicine?

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Need to know more: About the tumor.  Some tumors can be watched, if believed to be benign.  Others cannot be definitely diagnosed by imaging and may need to be biopsied or removed.  Then decisions about additional treatment can be made.  Please make sure the patient's doctor is involved.  A neurologist and neurosurgeon may also need to be involved.

Question 4

if you were to generalize brain tumors, and not focus on a single type but all of them, from 1 - 10, is it curable?

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Depends: Very difficult question.  Much depends on whether the patient is a child or adult, and the tumor a primary brain tumor or a metastasis and whether the patient as a syndrome. As a general rule, tumors that are within the skull but outside the brain (known as extra-axial) are benign and usually amenable to surgical excision.  Tumors that are truly inside the brain tend to be malignant.

Question 5

are brain tumors curable?

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Yes: Depending on the type of tumor and location, brain tumors can be treatable and/or curable, but often the treatment is difficult and true cure is not attained. Typical treatment involves some combination of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

Question 6

do you know are most brain tumors curable?

Accepted Answer

It depends: There are several types of brain tumors. They can be primary brain tumors or often the tumor may  come from another cancer outside of the brain. Primary brain cancer can have a good prognosis if they are low grade(glioma)  or poor results if the brain tumor is of the high grade(also called glioblastoma).   Nearly 50-60% of the brain tumors are not curable, yet the treatment can extend life.

Question 7

how is a brain tumor treated?

Accepted Answer

It depends on type: Treatment is different depending on the the type of brain tumor.
Benign brain tumors like meningioma may be treated surgically or by radiosurgery or a combination of above.

Malignant high grad primary brain tumors are typically treated by maximal safe resection followed by chemoradiation.

Metastatic brain tumors are treated surgically or by radiation, radiosurgery or a combination of above.

Question 8

what could cause a brain tumor?

Accepted Answer

Tumor origins: Brain tumors, like any neoplasms in the body, can be induced by an interplay of genetic and environmental factors.  In other words, there are inherited predispositions in some cases.  One environmental factors known to induce some brain tumors is radiation exposure.  Unfortunately, there is much that we still do not know about how these tumors start.

Question 9

what are the stages of a brain tumor?

Accepted Answer

There are none: Brain tumors rarely develop extra neural metastases.  They are graded based on pathology.  Gx cannot be graded, g1 well differentiated, g2 moderately differentiated, g3 poorly differentiated, g4 undifferentiated.  The reason why there is rarely metastasis is because the brain does not have a well-developed lymphatic drainage system. Hope this helps.

Question 10

what happens once you have brain tumor?

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Brain tumor: This depends upon the size and location of the tumor, as well as whether the tumor is benign or malignant (cancer).  A small benign tumor may exist for years and you may never know it is there.  Even a large benign tumor, that may grow very slowly over a period of years, may produce no symptoms even though it is the size of a golf ball or larger.

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