Talk:Brain tumor

Does anyone know anything about the causes of brain tumours, whether they are on the increase or if there is any ongoing research into this?

Brain tumor photo

There is a photo of breat cancer instead of brain cancer...—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spydercanopus (talk • contribs) .

It is breast cancer metastatic to the brain. -- Samir धर्म 07:38, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

drflo

Fantastic expansion! Could you provide PMID numbers for the references? JFW | T@lk 14:04, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

jfd

thank you, and also thanks for adding the PMIDs! There's still work to be done on this article and especially the references - I'll tackle this as soon as I get a chance. I'm also thinking about adding a few images. I don't mind joining Wikiproject "clinical medicine", thanks for the invite. DrFlo1 19:15, May 23, 2005 (EDT)

Deaths

Do brain tumors always result in death? 64.136.27.226 23:40, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No. In fact, a benign tumor is very unlikely to cause death. Many times they can be surgically removed.

Most "benign" (low-grade) gliomas tend to transform into malignant ones (anaplastic degeneration), and their complete surgical removal is extremely difficult, to say the least, due to their infiltrative nature. Whether surgery has any beneficial efect in slowing down anaplastic degeneration and extending survival time is far from being proven. On the other side, many extra-axial tumors, such as meningeomas, can be surgically cured.

I believe that the user above was asking if malignant brain tumors always result in death. I was wondering the same thing, because I knew of two people who had brain tumors, and they both died as a result. Is this always the case? Scorpionman 00:52, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm getting a really mixed set of messages from this. I've got the one side that says that many brain tumors are treatable and yet theres another, well represented in the article, that seem to have a very pessimistic view. I'm not really sure how serious a brain tumor inherantly is. Can anybody reconcile this, I'd really appreciate a solid answer. Blademaster 02:20, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Any brain tumor is inherantly serious and life threatening. However brain tumors (even malignant ones) do not automatically mean death. It depends on the type - I am a medulloblastoma survivor and there are many others. Glioblastoma Multiforme however almost always results in death.

What is this?

Brain cancer develops from overexposure to watermelons, as well as taxis. One who spends over 1 hour near any of those substances will automatically develop this condition. A troll?

Update: The first symptom of brain cancer is the development of excessively sweaty armpits. Followed by chronic lying. The person becomes unable to tell the truth about anything. Constipation is the third major sign. Should anyone begin to notice theses symptoms they are advised to see their closest drug dealer immediately. There is no hope for you so you may as well not remember any of it.

Okay, someone who knows a LOT about Brain tumors, please clean up this article from the troll.

You did it pretty well yourself! Next time try this. JFW | T@lk 01:25, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Someone said that watermelons and taxis cause brain cancer? LOL! Scorpionman 00:55, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Durova

Durova (talk · contribs) inserted a paragraph that distinguished "brain cancer" from "brain tumor". Both terms refer to tumors in the brain, although "brain cancer" would refer to malignancy, while "tumor" can refer to both. It is not true that "brain cancer" is used exclusively for cerebral metastasis.

I also removed the assertion that brain tumors now kill more children than leukaemia[1]. Without a source, this cannot be sustained. JFW | T@lk 03:08, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It takes a somewhat careful reading and wording to state this correctly: The United States diagnoses more total cases of childhood leukemia each year. Due to higher mortality rates, brain tumors are responsible for a greater number of deaths.

http://www.tbts.org/itemDetail.asp?categoryID=383&itemID=16635

http://www.btan.org/education.php

Durova 01:23, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

But those URLs mix cerebral metastasis and primary brain tumors. Confusing. JFW | T@lk 02:38, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a couple of years since this was an issue in my family and I was unable to relocate the original article. Keep an eye open for the subject, please? Common sense suggests that metastatic brain tumors are a minimal cause of pediatric diagnoses. Durova 15:15, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.cbtrus.org/reports//2005-2006/2006report.pdf has new data CBTRUS: An estimated 43,800 new cases of primary non-malignant and malignant brain and central nervous system tumors are expected to be diagnosed in the United States in 2005.

The problem is that this includes some other types of BRAIN cancers...CBTRUS (Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States) incidence rates and estimated new cases include all primary malignant and non-malignant tumors of the brain, central nervous system, pituitary and pineal glands, and olfactory tumors of the nasal cavity. Chrispounds 23:49, 30 January 2006

Vandals!

We have vandals for the brain tumors, by the name of Tomlillis.

Ban him/her from Wikipedia immediately! Scorpionman 00:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article is unreadable.

It has too many links, also why isn't there any photos or picture illustrating what a brain tumor looks like?--80.227.100.62 07:53, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merging Medulloblastoma w. Brain Tumor

I like having a separate small article with particulars. The big articles are pretty intimidating somtimes. Frankly, I'm reading this because a friends child has one, and I don't want to have to deal with the big picture. I want to know what it is, how it progresses and so forth and the Medulloblastoma article did a good job of this for me. If I want more of an overview I can always easily get to the brain tumor article. In some ways it's easier to get a small article right, and if it ever gets big with details (as opposed to overmuch repetition of the brain tumor article) then it does deserve it's own article. I guess that's the question, how much duplication is there? I'm poorly equipped to answer this question because I've not taken time with the brain tumor article. None the less, at this moment I vote to keep them separate articles. --kop 23:01, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Add a link?

Hi

  I would like to request that you add a link to my website:

Clinical Trials and Noteworthy Treatments For Brain Tumors at virtualtrials.com

We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity, and our website is the most complete resource for brain tumor information. We have about 40 hours of video of brain tumor subjects, many original articles as well as a database of treatent options. Check out the site!Amusella 12:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Treatment /prognosis section needs updating

Hi

 Overall, pretty good job on the article... but the section on treatment and prognosis is now incorrect and badly needs updating.

For example, for glioblastomas, there IS now a standard treatment protocol that is surgery with maximal amount of tumor removal and insertion of gliadel wafer (if possible... as there are a few situations where surgery and/or Gliadel shouldn't be used), followed by a combination of Radiation and chemotherapy using Temodar, followed by chemotherapy with Temodar.

 You menioned a prognosis of months. With the above protocol, it is actually over a year.  http://virtualtrials.com/news3.cfm?item=2555&showtext=y
 However, there are many clinical trials going on now where average survival is over 2 years and some patients have been going for many years with no sign of recurrence. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2764420022542063525  So there is finally some hope at beating this.
    And finally - I am new to Wikipedia, but whenever I read something as important as this article, I like to know who wrote it and what affiliations (and possible conflicts of interest) they have.  Why aren't Wikipedia articles signed by who wrote them? And who wrote this one?

Al Musella, DPM President Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research & Information, Inc virtualtrials.com 888-295-4740 Amusella 12:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]