Is brain cancer and a brain tumor the same thing?
Interesting that you bring this up. Primary brain malignancies have always been called brain "tumors" rather than "cancer of the brain." Yet many are clearly cancerous, locally invasive, progressing malignancies. Strange the way people perceive words. If you tell patients they have a "tumor," it does not seem as ominous to them as saying they have "cancer." - - - Now there is confusion that many people have in regard to this topic. A person with lung carcinoma that has spread to the brain has lung cancer in the brain. It is not a brain cancer. It is still lung cancer that is growing in the brain area. A person with a glioblastoma multiforme has a "brain tumor" - but these are usually aggressive cancers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioblastom... As for cures - that depends on the primary brain cancer/tumor type and the stage. Interesting question regarding the semantics of this.
What are the differences between symptoms anxiety and brain tumor?
If the feelings of anxiety are the only symptoms you have, it's probably not a brain tumor. That was one of my latest symptoms. I had an eye twitch that lasted 4 months. I saw floaters, shimmers in my peripheral vision, numbing, throbbing, weakening in my arm for over a year. The feelings of a panic attack coming on, started a few months before my migraine, which happened 2 days before my seizure. Blood work will not show a brain tumor. The ct or mri scans will obviously show a mass if you have one. My dr said the anxious feelings were actually the aura many people get with brain tumors.
Is it possible to confuse stool in a CT scan with a tumor?
Forgive me if this sounds harsh; I am an ABR-certified Diagnostic Radiologist. Collectively, your questions are confusing. I have two "take home" messages for you. The first is implicit based on answers to the following: a. who said (and on what basis? the radiologist's report?) " ... the colon lining is thickened."? A radiologist? A UROLOGIST? Then, (and NOT to imply it is was incorrect,) who recommended or decided that you should undergo colonoscopy? The radiologist,urologist, your PCP, or the gastroenterologist?Based on your level of understanding regarding CT scanning, I suggest that if you want to purse medical questions such as yours further, you need to refine them and replace guesses, e.g. a Urologist looking at the colon on a CT scan,) with assertions (like reading the actual radiology report.) Then, study, comprehend, and know the following terms: accuracy; incidence; prevalence; sensitivity; specificity; positive predictive value; negative predictive value; and the most important four of all, true positive, false positive, true negative, and false negative.
Can a person who is in the last stage of brain tumor(Glioblastoma Multiforme Grade 4 Cancer) be healthy?
It’s hard to know what you are asking, but it is impossible to be terminal and healthy at the same time. It is not uncommon for patients with this disease to be asymptomatic until the tumor becomes very large. Is this what you mean? The median survival time from the time of diagnosis without any treatment is about 3 months. Whether or not this person decides on treatment they will begin to get symptoms in the weeks to come. Spend as much time together now as the most common symptoms are progressive memory, personality, or neurological deficit. Best wishes. EDIT: It is always possible for someone to live longer than expected it isn’t unusual. Doctors can only make an educated guess, but they never know for sure. As the disease progresses you will see symptoms as explained above. Common symptoms as it progresses further include seizure, nausea and vomiting, headache, and hemiparesis. However, much depends on where the tumor is located. Be glad she feels okay now and enjoy the time you have.
Glioblastoma can anyone help with more information please?
My Mum was diagnosed with a primary brain tumour two months ago(glioblastoma) and on the 16th of April has had 98% of it removed and still in hospital recovering from the Op, she is confused and always agitated, she still has to have Radiation treatment and the hospital say that they can't put her thro radiation till she is more focused and aware. Has anyone had any or know of someone who had similar condition? and how long will this confusion last for?