Brain Tumor
Brain tumor is the abnormal mass of tissue within the skull. It is formed due to unusual cell division. This hazardous cell division may occur inside the brain or sometimes it happens around the brain area. Also, cancer cells from other body organs become the cause of malignant brain tumor. Brain tumor affects every part of the brain. Most often it resides in the bones on the back side of skull. They can also be found in the cerebral hemisphere.
The brain tumor patients are increasing in a rapid pace. In United States only, 2.4 % of cancer deaths are due to brain tumor. It has been estimated that every year 13,000 people fall victim to brain tumor.
There are many techniques for effective treatment of brain tumor. Gamma Knife Radio surgery is one such technique. The advantages of radio surgery are that there is no bleeding during surgery. Also, patient can go home on the day of surgery because there is no need to keep the patient in hospital after surgery. The detection of brain tumor can be done with the help of a radiology called CT scan. CT scan is just like x-ray in which 2 or 3 pictures of brain or any other part of the body are taken. Then a full and detailed picture is formed by those small pictures. The advancement in CT scan has leads towards the diagnosis of heart diseases which is CT angiography.
Using MRI scan test we can also identify the existence of brain tumor. For those doctors and physicians which are new in this field must visit Scan directory from which they can take help regarding scanning processes like virtual colonoscopy.