After brain tumor treatment
How often do you review?
At present, the treatment methods of brain tumors include observation and follow-up, surgery, radiotherapy, gamma knife therapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy and biotherapy. Among them, surgery is the most commonly used and effective method to treat intracranial tumors, and most benign tumors can be cured by surgery; Surgical treatment of malignant tumor can relieve symptoms and provide pathological and even molecular pathological basis for postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Within 2 years after benign tumor operation, every 3-6 months 1 time, every 6- 12 months 1 time in 2-5 years, and every 1-3 years thereafter or according to the condition. For malignant tumors, reexamination 1 time every 3 months within 2 years after operation, reexamination 1 time every 6 months within 2-5 years, and reexamination 1 time every year thereafter.
The reexamination is mainly based on imaging examination, and it is suggested to choose enhanced magnetic vibration, and it is best to ensure that it is carried out in the same hospital under the same conditions, which is beneficial to the comparison before and after. For pituitary adenoma, it is necessary to check pituitary hormones, and patients receiving chemotherapy should also do blood routine tests such as liver and kidney function.
After suffering from a brain tumor
How to prevent recurrence?
First of all, we should complete all the standardized treatments and review and follow up on schedule; Secondly, we must correctly understand brain tumors, face them with a healthy and sunny attitude, and have confidence in defeating brain tumors; Thirdly, we should have a healthy lifestyle, such as quitting smoking and limiting alcohol, reasonable diet, moderate exercise and strengthening physical fitness. If the standardized treatment is not completed, people will be depressed all day, which will inevitably weaken people's resistance and create opportunities for tumor recurrence.
Brain tumor prevention is divided into three levels.
The primary prevention of brain tumors is etiological prevention, which means taking preventive measures to eliminate or reduce tumor-causing factors, promote health and nip in the bud for the general population. Such as abstinence from alcohol, immunization, occupational disease prevention, cancer prevention health education in the whole society, etc.
Secondary prevention is pathogenic prevention. It refers to screening early tumor cases for specific high-risk groups, so as to carry out early detection, early prevention and early treatment, and its measures include screening and intervention experiments. It is necessary to examine the head for patients with brain trauma.
The head of patients with neurofibromatosis in the family was examined by CT and MRI to screen meningioma and neurilemmoma. Patients with a history of cancer receive regular MRI reexamination to screen metastatic tumors; CT or MRI screening of intracranial lymphoma in AIDS patients, the elderly and immunocompromised people.
Tertiary prevention refers to measures such as preventing recurrence, reducing complications, preventing disability, improving survival rate and rehabilitation rate, and alleviating the pain caused by tumors. Including regular follow-up, timely review of images, early functional exercise and rehabilitation treatment, improvement of treatment methods to reduce treatment side effects, early prevention of complications and so on.