Brain Tumor also effects towards Personality, Paralysis, Memory loss

In certain instances, people with brain tumor also shows personality changes and weakness or paralysis in one side of the body, loss of balance, memory loss and vision changes.
Unfortunately the symptoms are often vague in children, especially in toddlers who are not able to describe them.

Also, many of the above mentioned Brain Tumor Symptoms can occur as part of other childhood ailments and are ignored by parents. However the crucial difference with brain tumors is that the symptoms persists and get worse over time.

One of the most prominent living member of the powerful Kennedy family and the longest serving United States senator was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Chances of survival of patients and the severity of the brain tumor depends on a host of factors including the area of brain involved and the forms of therapy. Brain is an extremely complex organ containing roughly 100 billion neurons, each neuron linked to as many as 10000 other neurons regulating all human activities.

What is Brain Tumor?

Simply stated Brain Tumor is an abnormal mass of tissue in which some cells grow and multiply uncontrollably. As the brain tumor grows it interferes with normal brain activity.

Primary Brain Tumor, Childhood Brain Tumor and Brain Tumor Death

The primary brain tumors originate in the brain itself. Secondary brain tumors originate as cancer in another part of the body and are carried to the brain through blood. Brain tumors are not to be taken lightly since they are leading cause of death from childhood cancers among persons upto 19 years of age.

Brain tumors are also the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in men aged between 20 and 39 and the fifth leading cause of cancer related deaths in women age group of 20 to 39.