About Cancer:
One of the most common diseases around us is cancer, or tumors, which affect various areas of the body. We will talk about spinal cord tumors, which are the presence of small swollen parts in the spinal cord area, and these tumors develop in different areas of the spinal cord.
It is also distinctive that they differ in species and can be identified through the symptoms caused by the physical condition and public health, and can predict the type of treatment that fits such tumors through the symptoms that appear on the person who has.
Studies have also shown that tumors of the nervous system and brain are the second most common type of tumor affecting humans, especially children, and that the most common years in which a child is exposed to cancer are between the ages of three and twelve.
Most tumors in children are in the brain and brain stem regions, but adults appear in other sporadic areas, but spinal cord tumors are rare tumors among people.
The most common symptoms associated with spinal cord tumors include:
- Headaches.
- Strabismus, feeling a state of double vision of things.
- Continuous vomiting cases.
- Feeling difficult while walking, so walking is heavy and uneven.
- Difficult to hold pen and writing.
- Loss of concentration by a certain percentage.
How can spinal cord tumors be treated?
In most types of tumors in general, the most appropriate and most effective treatment is the removal of the infected part, and then if not successful, the doctor resort to the use of radiation therapy to get rid of the tumor, and in the final to chemotherapy to ensure that the patient does not return to the injured person.
There are also cases where the doctor resort to the use of radiation therapy not to resort to drugs and chemical drugs, and chemotherapy for children is more appropriate than radiation therapy and the slightest impact on the body.
Methods of treatment:
- Treatment by surgery: that the tumor is removed and close to the affected member, in order to reassure the absence of other areas infected but did not show symptoms.
- Radiation therapy: It is by shedding radiation on the tumor area in order to kill and control it to stop its spread in the spinal cord.
- Chemotherapy: It is by taking drugs that treat the tumor, or injections that contain the substance by the muscle, and the dose can be taken through the intravenous nourishing through injection.