Friday, October 12, 2007

brain tumor treatments

These are the current methods to remove a brain tumor.

1. Surgery: Most common method. Using computerized devices called surgical navigation systems, the surgeon can accurately determine the size, location, and position of the tumor. Surgeons make large opening in the skull, and use the surgical navigation system to remove the tumor.
2. Radiation: Radiation is applied to brain tumors to selectively kill the tumor while leaving normal tissue unharmed.
3. Chemotherapy: It is the treatment of disease with chemicals or drugs. It works by causing cell damage that is better repaired by normal tissue than by tumor tissue.
4. Immunotherapy: The body's immune system should recognize tumor cells as abnormal, and then attack and destroy them.
5. Antiangiogenesis: using substances (antiangiogenesis factors) that inhibit blood vessels, thereby starving the tumor cells.
6. Gene therapy: It is to correct the underlying defects in the genes that lead to tumor control.

I will post the pdfs that I found on these later, when I find out how to do it.

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