What is a meningioma?

A meningioma or still called brain cancer is a cancerous mass born and enlarged at the level of the membrane that covers the brain, it can attack the cranial or more it can compress the blood vessels of the brain and the cerebral nerves.

What are the symptoms of meningioma?

The signs differ according to the site in which the tumor occurs and affect the brain, but they can be as follows:

• Vision changes, such as seeing double or fuzzy

• Headaches that progress over time

• Hearing loss or buzzing in the ears

•Memory loss

• Death of smell

• Seizures

• Weakness in the arms

• Weakness in the legs

•Hair loss

•Weightloss

Most signs of brain cancer are slowly evolving, but this disease sometimes depends on emergency medical care.

What are the means of diagnosis?

•Physical examination

• Imaging exams

• Analysis of a tumor sample

What are the risks of brain cancer?

The risks that are related to the progression of a meningioma are:

• Radiotherapy

• female hormones

• weakness in the brain system

• Neurofibromatosis type II.

Causes of a meningioma?

 The causes of the formation of a meningioma are not known. But the studies below have a very important role:

• Genetic predisposition

• The submission to radiation

• Traumatic brain injury

• Hormonal disruption (such as pregnancy, especially increased progesterone hormone).

What are the treatments?

The treatments depend on several essential factors:

• The size and location of meningioma

• The growth rate or aggressiveness of the tumor

• Age and general health

• Your treatment goals

• Focus of pregnant woman

A small, low-growing meningioma that does not result from signs does not depend on treatment.

Surgery: If the tumor causes symptoms of progression, the doctor must perform surgery.

A meningioma that is not treated?

Sub-average brain tumor with a low rate of progression lasts a lifetime. He does not need to be treated.

The probability of recovery

They require the type of tumor, the stage of its progression, the treatment possibilities, the age and the state of health of the patient as well. With regard to benign brain tumors, such as meningioma, which progresses slowly, the percentage of healing is very good. For malignant tumors progressing abruptly and whose prognosis is sometimes unfavorable, we expect many new therapeutic advances.

The malignant change remains a remarkable uncertainty, but it is not uncommon that during the progressive recovery the tumor presents a degree of anaplasia

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