Brain tumor or brain tumor, its cause is still unknown, tumors from the brain, the meninges, pituitary gland, cranial nerves, blood vessels and brain remnants of embryonic organizer, called primary brain tumors. Transferred from the body of malignant tumors to other organs and tissues of the brain, known as secondary brain tumors.
According to residents of six cities in the survey, the prevalence of intracranial tumors was 32/10 million and a worldwide statistics for the 40/10 million. Description of intracranial tumor incidence is not low, it is worth attention. On the body in terms of the incidence of cancer, a brain tumor was in fifth place (6.31%), just below the stomach, uterus, breast, esophagus tumors. In adults, brain tumors account for 2% of the total number of systemic cancer, childhood brain tumors in various parts of the body relatively high percentage, accounting for 7% of systemic cancer.
Brain tumors can occur at any age, more common in adults. Infants and the elderly are less than 60 years of onset. General incidence and no major differences in gender, but gender-related individual tumors. Parts of the tumor occurred, supratentorial than infratentorial than two incidence rate is about 3: 1. Brain tumor located on the screen of frontal and temporal lobe were mostly under the screen were more common in the cerebellar hemispheres and vermis, fourth ventricle, cerebellopontine angle.
1, mainly for the symptomatic treatment of increased intracranial pressure, intracranial pressure lowering drugs such as the application of dehydration; for seizures OF antiepileptic drugs. Because the tumor is located in the vitals, surgery can not be done, while drug treatment ineffective, feasible cerebrospinal fluid shunt, temporalis muscle under decompression, decompression or decompression craniectomy and other palliative surgical muscle under the pillow.
2, the cause of treatment: ① mainly surgical removal of the tumor, surgery is the principle: Where benign tumor resection should strive to achieve the effect of cure; where malignant or benign tumors located in important functional areas, should be based on the patient's condition and technical conditions be subtotal or partial resection to achieve the purpose of decompression. ② Where failure or cancer resection and radiosensitive tumor, postoperative radiotherapy should be carried out. ③ malignant tumors, especially gliomas and metastases, in addition to postoperative radiotherapy, they can still be administered by different ways and means of chemotherapy, called chemotherapy. To improve the effect of malignant brain tumors after surgery and prolong survival of patients, the application of radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, collectively known as the comprehensive treatment of brain tumors.
3, Chinese medicine treatment can be used as one of the measures of comprehensive treatment for some not suitable for surgery and radiotherapy patients relapse after chemotherapy or surgery.
