Brain+tumors

BRAIN TUMORS BY:Rachel Wasserman Definition A brain tumor is when your blood cells grow abnormally and they clot and create like a little organ of it own. Your blood will also grow very slowly. Plus your blood cells grow to big and when the big ones clot it creates a huge organ like thing, which is known as a brain tumor. Symptoms The symptoms are you grow less blood cells, you get huge nodes. (Nodes – hundreds of little bean sized lymph’s.)(Lymph’s-white blood cells and bathes tissue that drains the blood stream. You may also vomit, confusion, change of personality, speech problems, and vision loss  Prevention .   You prevent it by not smoking and by not smoking it can also prevent another cancer(lung cancer). Also do not exspose yourself to radiation which again could also prevent another cancer(melanoma).   How To Treat It   You treat it with a special kind of radiation treatment you can also treat it with surgery but thats only if you have a very serious stage of brain tumors. The radiation treatment is where they use strong power waves in your body and it zaps away the bad cells. Another one is chemotherapy which is getting a anti- cancer drug to stop the symptoms but only for a little bit.  What Causes It?

The cause of a brain tumor is where you are exsposed to way to much radiation. Or the other reason is your blood cells grow way abnormaly. FUN FACTS!
 * About 360,000 people in the US have brain tumors.
 * 100,000 americans a year die of brain tumors.
 * Between 15-25% of cancer are mostly in children!
 * Most brain tumors start at ages 8-45.
 * 44,000 each year is number of brain tumors reported in the US that aren't the worst of its kind.