Host: Is a headache a sign of a brain tumor?
Zhao Jizong: Headache is a symptom that everyone has, and most of them are not caused by brain tumor. There are many causes of headaches, such as neurasthenia, overwork, poor sleep and so on. There are also paroxysmal migraine, refractive error of the eyes, myopia, sinusitis, etc., but can be symptomatic after taking medication to get relief, while the headache caused by brain tumor is less common, headache caused by brain tumor is a severe persistent headache, and in the morning when you get up, you will feel the headache, eat painkillers can only relieve for a period of time, and in addition to the headache will be accompanied by vomiting and other phenomena.
Host: Are there many people suffering from brain tumors in China?
Zhao Yuanli: There are not many people suffering from brain tumors, and the incidence rate of brain tumors is 1 in 10,000 per year. Brain tumors are divided into: congenital, acquired, benign, malignant and so on more than ten kinds.
Host: What are the dangers of brain tumor?
Zhao Jizong: The cranial cavity includes the brain, blood vessels, cerebral effusion, nerves, etc., and the brain tumor also grows in the skull, so it squeezes the normal brain tissue, in addition to not easy to be found. The brain is like the commanding officer of the human body, once it has problems, all the organs of the whole body will also be abnormal.
Zhao Yuanli: After the increase of intracranial pressure, there will be headache, vomiting and other phenomena, the vomiting of brain tumor is jet, after vomiting, the symptoms of headache will be reduced, the brain tumor will be bigger and bigger, the symptoms will be more and more serious, and sometimes there will be oedema of the fundus of the eye, blurred vision, loss of eyesight, etc. The brain tumor can also cause cranial nerve problems, which can be caused by the brain tumor. It may also cause cranial nerve disorders and cerebral or cerebellar hemispheric dysfunction.
Host: Is brain tumor hereditary?
Zhao Jizong: After the research in recent years, some tumors are found to be hereditary, but they are all benign, such as cavernous hemangioma, vascular reticulocytoma, neurofibromatosis.
Host: What other symptoms are caused by brain tumors?
Zhao Jizong: There are 12 pairs of cranial nerves in the brain, which are responsible for the functions of the five senses of the head, after the appearance of brain tumor, it will affect the function of the cranial nerves, which will lead to the dysfunction of the five senses, if the brain tumor grows in the cerebellum, the patient will appear to be unsteady in walking, and if the brain tumor grows in the brain, it will affect the movement, emotion, language and so on.
Host: One woman experienced menopause and lactation, and her doctor said she had a brain tumor.
Zhao Jizong: Brain tumor is also related to endocrine, there is an endocrine center called pituitary gland at the base of the skull, which will cause endocrine abnormality once there is a problem. These patients often go to the obstetrics and gynecology department for checkups first, and the checkups are conducted when the tumor grows bigger and bigger and causes other symptoms, so it is relatively late to find out the brain tumor; congenital craniopharyngeal tumors suffered by adolescents affect the child's development, causing shortness and thirst. The congenital craniopharyngeal tumor in adolescents will affect the development of the child, cause shortness and thirst, etc. After suffering from this disease, the child can drink a lot of water, and can drink tens of thousands of milliliters of water in 24 hours, so the frequency of urination is also very high, and it will also affect the eyesight when it develops to the late stage, and then the child should go to the specialized hospital to see if he or she is suffering from a brain tumor.
Host: Ms. Zhou, Beijing My son is 21 years old, he suddenly went crazy when he was 18 years old, and has been having seizures 1-2 times a year since then, and he is now taking Phenytoin Sodium, and he has no symptoms, what kind of tests do I need to do? Is it a brain tumor?
Zhao Jizong: greater than 15 years of age of the phenomenon of adolescents suddenly appeared jerking mad, generally is a brain tumor, of course, may also be due to vascular malformation, parasites, etc., it is recommended to specialist hospitals to carry out the examination of the magnetic **** vibration, and less than 15 years of age of the phenomenon of the child suddenly appeared jerking mad, it may be the primary epilepsy, the causes of which are still not too clear.
Host: Ms. Lu of Zhejiang Province, who has frequent headaches and vomiting, but gets better after a good night's sleep, is she suffering from a brain tumor?
Zhao Yuanli: Many reasons can cause headache, if the headache is accompanied by projectile vomiting, it is recommended to go to a specialized hospital for CT or magnetic **** vibration examination.
Host: Mr. Zhu from Henan Province Daughter is 3 years old and has a germ cell tumor in her brain, 2cm in size, with symptoms of precocious puberty and breast development.
Zhao Jizong: before need to carry out surgical treatment, now you can carry out radiotherapy, because it is very sensitive to radiotherapy drugs, treatment less than a course of germ cell tumor will disappear, the effect is very good.
Host: How to find a brain tumor early?
Zhao Yuanli: If there are those symptoms mentioned above, it is recommended to go to the neurology department of the hospital for detailed examination, such as CT, magnetic **** vibration examination.
Host: How to treat after suffering from brain tumor?
Zhao Jizong: With the improvement of treatment technology, the postoperative effect has also improved, you can open the skull for surgery, you can carry out minimally invasive surgery, carried out under the microscope through the navigation technology, the postoperative effect is very good, and the operation time is also very short, you can also carry out radiotherapy to kill the tumor cells, you can also be treated with chemicals, and of course you can carry out a comprehensive treatment, the effect is still relatively ideal, and the mortality rate has been reduced to less than 1%. The mortality rate has been reduced to less than 1%, and the surgery is also safer.
Host: Mr. Liu, Jiangsu Province, China My sister had a craniotomy for a brain tumor last year, and now she has high blood sugar, can she have radiotherapy?
Zhao Yuanli: I don't know if she has diabetes herself, you can use some hypoglycemic drugs, or you can use insulin formally, it is recommended that you go to the internal medicine department for examination, and then go to the radiotherapy after the blood sugar control is normal.
Host: Ms. Zhen in Gansu Her husband is 38 years old and diagnosed with pituitary adenoma. If we go to Beijing for treatment, how long will it take? What is the cost?
Zhao Jizong: According to the size and location of the tumor to decide the treatment method, if the tumor is small, it can be minimally invasive surgery through the nasal cavity, if the tumor is large, it can only be craniotomy, if the tumor is small and far away from the nerves, you can also carry out radiotherapy, the treatment cycle for about 1 week, the advance payment of 35,000 yuan, according to the cost of more than a little refund.
Host: Ms. Wang from Heilongjiang province, who was found to have a glioma on her brain by CT and often has convulsions.
Zhao Yuanli: This is a common brain tumor, which can be treated with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. It is a malignant tumor, which is not easy to be removed cleanly by surgery.
Host: Ms. Chen, Xiamen: My lover has a brain tumor and hydrocephalus, and he can't lift his left hand and is dizzy.
Zhao Jizong: There are many causes of hydrocephalus, it is recommended to go to the hospital to check the relationship between brain tumor and hydrocephalus, if it is due to the brain tumor, it can be removed, and the symptoms of hydrocephalus will be alleviated, if it is not due to the brain tumor, it can be shunted surgery, to drain the fluid into the abdominal cavity to be absorbed.
Host: Ms. Yang, Sichuan Can vision loss due to brain tumor be cured by laser? Will my vision be restored after the cure?
Zhao Yuanli: Laser treatment can be used during craniotomy. Whether vision can be restored or not depends on how early the brain tumor is detected and treated.
Host: Ms. Lin from Jiangxi Province, her father has a pituitary tumor and has undergone craniotomy, and the postoperative examination found that the pituitary gland is hypopituitarism, will it recover? Will it recur?
Zhao Jizong: alternative therapy can be carried out, according to the results of laboratory tests, treatment, but also chemotherapy and other complementary therapies, it is recommended that every six months for a review of the magnetic **** vibration, benign tumors in the brain recurrence rate is small, and malignant tumors, especially gliomas have a high rate of recurrence, so it is very important to review regularly.
Moderator: Chen, 18 years old, was found to have occupational lesions in bilateral ventricles and the third ventricle, and was considered to have a ventriculotumor, is the survival rate of surgical treatment large? What is the quality of life after surgery?
Zhao Yuanli: This may be a cerebral ventricular tubular tumor, which is also a kind of glioma, relatively speaking, if the surgical resection is clean, the effect is still possible.