Brain Tumors?

Question

My grandmother died in July 2007 of a Brain tumor that no one knew about. (including the DR.) I was wondering How do brain tumors start and do they run in the family?

Answer 1

I have a brain tumor was caused from being continually hit in the same area as a child It has grown 1 time since i was 19 now i am 51
Causes
Doctors generally divide brain tumors into the following categories to explain where or how they originate:

Primary. Primary brain tumors originate in the brain or close to it, such as in the skull, brain membranes (meninges), cranial nerves, pituitary gland or pineal gland. Most brain tumors in children are primary. Slightly more than one-fourth of all brain tumors are primary. The remaining are secondary (metastatic). It's not known what causes primary brain tumors. It's possible that heredity, environmental factors, viruses or other factors play a role in their development.

Some common types of primary tumors — named after the type of brain cells from which they originate — include acoustic neuromas (schwannomas), astrocytomas, medulloblastomas, meningiomas and oligodendrogliomas.

Secondary. Secondary (metastatic) brain tumors are tumors that result from cancer that starts elsewhere in your body and then spreads (metastasizes) to your brain. Cancers of the lung and breast are most likely to spread to your brain. Sometimes, a brain tumor is the first sign of cancer that began elsewhere in your body.

here are some other sites to check out to:
Web Resources
American Brain Tumor Association
Brain Tumor Society
National Brain Tumor Foundation
Children's Brain Tumor Foundation
National Organization for Rare Disorders
National Cancer Institute
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Answer 2

I'm sorry to hear about your Grandmother.
I have some experience with cancer in my family. A brain tumor could lurk there undetected, until it is too late to do anything about, and sometimes if it is operable, if a person is very old or frail they will not operate because they wouldn't recover from the surgery. I think it is unlikely that it runs in families, but no one really knows all the causes of some types of cancer. I hope this helps alittle.

Answer 3

Majority of brain tumors don't run in the family. They just start from cells that can never be detected unless you are specifically looking at them and by the time they are looking for them, its too late. My daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor at age 4. They said she was born with it and we never knew. Chemo didn't work and she passed away 6 months after she was diagnosed. I begged the doctors to do a ct scan on my other two children to see if they had one too, but they refused. They stated they are not hereditary and there was no cause to do a scan. NO CAUSE!!!!! So I hope they are right, and they are not hereditary.

Answer 4

Sorry to hear about your Grandma. I lost my dad to brain cancer.


There are different kinds or brain cancer not all are heredity.
The type that my dad had was NOT heredity.
Most brain tumors are idiopathic (no known cause)

Give her doctor a call and ask him some questions.

Answer 5

My household, nurses and preachers. I've visible each, a tumor is a progress in or at the mind. Where the aneurysm is a vein inside the mind that blows and leaks blood into the encompassing tissue. so much folks die of the aneurysm, that's quick. Standing there speaking and they're long gone. Of the 2 take the aneurysm.