what is the worst type of brain tumors?
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Well, Brain tumors are not good as a general rule. My son had diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.  It was in his brain stem. So it affected his breathing, his walking, ect.. but was able to always think clearly. He was fully aware of what was happening to him. I have know people to survive brain tumors. There is also a difference between brain cancer, and brain tumors. Most brain tumors are not maglignant. But treated as such. There is an excellant book call the primer for brain tumors. It is online. It explains all the types of brain tumors.
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I'm not sure of the function of the Left Sylvian Fissure but there is a way to remove tumors a, cancerous and non cancerous from the brain that are inoperable if the funcion of the brain isn't to compromised. I underwent a procedure called Gamma Knife Surgery. It uses radiosugery with radiation to destroy brain matter. There are only 100 gamma knifes in the U.S. I think so it's a specialized tool.
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certain types of cancerous waste
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You have a brain tumor and it obviously has already effected your ability to think.....Go to the emergency room...NOW
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It will depend on where the tumor is located (since the symptoms vary within parts of the brain) and on the size. \nSome tumors don't give any symptoms, at least until they are big enough to start causing some local inflammatory reactions or pushing some nerves away. Roughly, it could give headaches (very unspecific), dizziness, numbness in any place of face/body, paralysis of some parts of the body/face like an arm, leg, mouth etc, problems with the vision (seeing double...), even changes in the personality like aggression, etc.
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I think the worst psychological torture I can imagine would have to be the ancient Chinese/Japanese water torture technique. There is a physical aspect to this because what they do is put your forehead underneath a continually dripping tap and this goes on for so long that your mind gets tricked into thinking that the water bores a hole into your head feeling like it is being eroded away slowly...now personally i wouldn't want to find myself in that situation.
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Tumors are just cancerous masses.  There are many, many possible causes of cancer, most of which are not well understood.  It could be a genetic predisposition (such as a mutation in the p53 gene).  Or it could be due to environmental factors (carcinogens ingested or absorbed by breathing).  It could also be caused just by plain old bad luck.  Cellular processes are VERY complex, and things don't always proceed according to plan.  Occasionally things get screwed up and the cell division is no longer regulated properly.  I wish there was an easy answer for you, but unfortunately we have chosen the word "cancer" to describe many different conditions that have similar characteristics.  All cancers are conditions in which cell proliferation has gone out of control (i.e., the cells won't stop dividing).  However, the causes of cancer are too numerous to mention, and we probably haven't identified them all.  Plus, cancer can occur in so many different types of tissue, and the pathology of each type of cancer may differ.  However, if the cancerous cells are picked up by the circulatory system, they can spread around the body (metastisis).  The cancerous cells may end up somewhere else in the body and induce a new tumor to form.  One of the scariest situations is when the cancer spreads to the lymph nodes.  Lymphomas are cancers of the immune cells (which aggregate in the lymph nodes).  These cancers affect your body's ability to fight all infections, so they are particularly deadly, whereas melanomas (skin cancers) are quite treatable and rarely result in death.  Brain tumors are extremely dangerous for obvious reasons.  Any brain damage will have drastic effects; plus, it's very difficult (sometimes impossible) to perform the surgery required to remove a tumor from the brain.
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Well I'm not an expert, but I think it probably depends on the kind of cancer. my mom had bone cancer that spread to her brain, they removed the 3 tumors she had, and they didn't grow back, but new ones did form, probably because of the bone cancer. They gave her 9 months and she lived 2 years, just passed away November 8. apparently, if not for the bone cancer, she would have been fine after they removed the brain tumors.
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Tumors have a number of obnoxious effects. I shall assume that you mean cancerous tumors, here, though some of this would apply to benign tumors, too.\n\nFirst of all, the tumor--whether benign or malignant--takes resources away from other tissues.  What the tumor takes, it takes away from all else.  It's being the biological equivalent of a power drain.\n\nNext, as it grows, the tumor can push on healthy structures--again, that's whether it's benign or malignant.  Depending on where they are, they can impair blood flow, lymphatic return, swallowing, emptying of the stomach (Or anything else), they can sometimes cause seizures, weaken bones, block off breathing, etc.  Oh, and if they're visible, they can be cosmetically disfiguring.\n\nSpecifically with malignant tumors--read that cancer, if you please--they can and often do spread elsewhere, the presence of the "daughter tumors" (Doctors call them metastases) causing an increase in the metabolic load and an increase in the number of places that get squeezed on.\n\nMoreover, many cancers produce chemicals of control--polypeptide hormones, like gastrin or insulin or antidiuretic hormone or cortisone or parathormone or, oh enough--that can play merry hob with the metabolism...\n\nThat's what comes to mind off the top of my ol' head...
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Astrocytoma?  Treatment depends on where the tumor is, and it's grading.
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Drunks get in their car and kill whole families.\n\nStoners get in the fridge and eat all the cookies. \n\nI'm going to go with Alcohol is worst.
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Your worst nightmare.
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He has a brain tumor.
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might have a brain tumor
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Having had one myself, it depends on where it is and what it's doing (i.e., growing or just sitting there)\n\nWhere it is has a big impact on if it's important.  My husband also had one (cortical displaysia actually, but similar) that included seizures, headaches, speech and memory problems.  It was removed and he was back to normal within literally /minutes/ of waking.\n\nMine was more benign.  A colloid cyst which sits in the center of your brain on the membrane connecting the hemispheres.  Mine had to be removed because it grew, but it was not cancer and had no other symptoms.\n\nFind out where, what kind and what size it is.  That will help.
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Yankees. The worst I'd say is the Packers. (no offence to Packers fans)
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Having worked in a Dermatologists office, I would say the best kind of cancer to get is a skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma.  You cannot die from this type of cancer, but if not treated, can cause a lot of other problems.