Technology helps to protect and preserve the integrity of normal brain tissue, screen and preserve normal blood vessel.
Brain tumours are the most difficult tumours in the body causing significant disability, morbidity as well as death. Brain tumours can occur from the brain in the foetus all the way to old age. The incidence of brain tumours is gradually increasing year by year and this could be possibly due to awareness and detection. The brain is posed for variety of tumours including malignancy.
According to a study, the prevalence of brain tumour cases stands at 8.2 cases for every 1 lakh population in the world. In this, 15-20 per cent of the brain tumour cases occur in children. In children after blood malignancy, brain tumour is the second major form of malignancy.
Brain tumours arising from the neuron, blood vessels, nerves and nerve sheaths starting with skull bones, pituitary glands, pineal glands are termed as primary brain tumour. Some of them are benign, but a good number of tumours are malignant. In addition, brains can also have metastatic tumours starting from the breast, lungs, pancreas, kidney, intestine, etc.
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