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How long does radation last in your body after 30 treatments for a brain tumor?
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∙ 7y ago
Getting radiation treatment generally does not make you radioactive. The treatment bombards the tumor with radiation which does its thing and goes on its way - passing on through the body.
The EFFECTS (or side-effects) of radiation treatments persist for a while though. Hair should start to regrow within a few months. Nausea should subside within a few days. Skin irritation may take longer but usually within a few weeks it should subside. Delayed (sub-acute) reactions including loss of appetite, sleepiness, lack of energy, as well as an increase in pre-existing neurologic symptoms may crop up some time between a few weeks and 3 months after treatment but usually clear up within 6 weeks (although sometimes some of them may persist for several months).
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∙ 13y agoPatients are not radioactive and the radiation passes through the body immediately.
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Which body cavity is opened to remove a brain tumor?
Cranial
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What body parts does a tumor affect?
A brain tumor can have an unlimited amount of effects. Not only it depends if the tumor is localized or spreads, but it also depends on the specific brain areas it affects. Also, even if a brain tumor is localized, since it is growing, a brain tumor will apply more and more pressure on the surrounding brain areas responsible for different cognitive domains such as memory, language, sensing, decision making...etc... The chemicals of the tumor may also affect how the person interacts with others. They may develop a temper, be angry, have trouble understanding and lose their concept of time.
Which body cavity would be opened for removal of a brain tumor?
None, they would open the skull with the use of a drill.
Is a brain tumor always fatal?
No diagnosis of a brain tumor doesn't mean that it will result in fatality. There are many different types of benign tumors that can affect the brain that wouldn't result in fatality even if considered inoperable. However, some of these can impact certain body functions depending on size.
Does brain tumor cause death?
There are two main ways to die of a brain tumor... (that I can think of off the top of my head) which are: 1) metastasis, 2) brain damage/death. Cancer of the brain can break apart and bits can travel to other areas of the body (depending upon which type of brain tumor) and set up camp there... which can just eat away at the body until the body either starves to death in some area, or there is an organ failure of some kind. The second way is that a brain tumor encroaches upon an important area of the brain, and so that part of the brain stops functioning... if it is the part that controls the lungs, then the body dies. Also, as the cancer gets bigger it smashes the rest of the brain and any part of the brain can just give up at any time, and then the body dies.
Are brain tumors life threatening?
Yes, brain cancer can spread from other tumors in the body to the skull. They can also crowd out normal cells and spread to other locations in the body. This can be fatal or life threatening because of the pressure the tumor puts on the brain.
