Gamma Knife surgery is one of the treatment options for an acoustic neuroma, a type of brain tumor. But Gamma Knife surgery can have side effects. If you’ve been diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, you Read more...
High blood pressure, not just brain tumors and sinus infections, can cause headaches. Hypertension can also cause an aneurysm in the brain – a bulging blood vessel that can burst and cause life-threatening bleeding. First Read more...
A brain tumor actually can cause a nosebleed. “Tumors starting from the skull base can erode into the sinus cavity causing nosebleeds,” says John M. Abrahams, MD, with Brain and Spine Surgeons of New York, Read more...
Acoustic neuroma on left; five years post-gamma knife radiosurgery on right. Source: pennmedicine.com It’s possible for an acoustic neuroma that’s surgically removed to grow back. The question then becomes, What are the odds Read more...
Unfortunately, the time it usually takes before a child’s brain tumor is finally diagnosed is often long enough for the cancer to grow a lot during the waiting period. Read more…
Because the cells of benign, slow-growing brain tumors divide slowly, the shrinkage effect of targeted radiation can take three years to show significant reduction in tumor size. If you’ve been diagnosed with an Read more...
Any brain tumor is bad news, but there are the deadliest and then there are “good” ones – from a relative standpoint, of course. If you could choose a particular brain tumor to have, there Read more...
Glioblastoma multiforme is one of the most brutal brain tumors, but its rapid growth may now be slowed with a drug that’s already been on the market. Read more…
A brain tumor can cause one pupil to be bigger or more dilated than the other. But so can less serious conditions including totally benign. Read more…
When a five year old or any age child keeps getting headaches, there is clearly something wrong, especially if there are other symptoms. Read more…
One suspected cause of floppy upper eyelids that feel rubbery is one of the most misdiagnosed and under-diagnosed diseases. Read more…
Have you been told by a dentist that your headaches are from TMJ? What has your dentist done to rule out a brain tumor? misdiagnosed “There are many different kinds of headaches, but TMJ headaches Read more...
If you’re been suffering from blackouts, headaches and hearing your heartbeat in your ear, this could mean a serious brain condition. In fact, just one of these symptoms can be caused by something serious affecting Read more...
If you have pain in one eye when you move it, this can have many causes and unfortunately, two can be a brain tumor or an aneurysm. Read more…
There’s the woman who thought the reason her young child’s eye was turning inward was “cross eyes” but it turned out to be a brain tumor. Read more…
There are several kinds of cancer that can mimic TMJ symptoms and lead to misdiagnosis, and in fact, misdiagnoses of TMJ disorder has actually been made in some cases. Read more…
TMJ disorder can cause a fierce headache, but so can a brain tumor. In fact, the onset of brain tumor headaches can mimic head pain caused by a temporomandibular joint disorder. Though the popping and Read more...
It’s happens: Someone is diagnosed with TMJ disorder but later learns it’s a misdiagnosis of a very serious disease, like a brain tumor or heart problem. The symptoms of temporomandibular joint disorder are very similar Read more...
It won’t be long before a brain tumor can be diagnosed without surgery, but instead by using ultrasound with a little help from some bubbles. Historically the diagnosis of a brain tumor came via surgical Read more...
Brain tumor treatments begin with mice experiments, but the latest research has scientists spellbound over its results, including for DIPG – a terminal brain cancer that almost always strikes children. Read Read more...