What are the differences between brain tumor and brain cancer?

Answer 1

Tumor or tumour (via Old French tumour from Latin tumor "swelling") is an abnormal growth or mass of tissue. A tumor can be either malignant or benign. Nearly all tumors are examples of neoplasia, although certain developmental malformations or inflammatory masses may occasionally be referred to as tumors.
Cancer is a disease characterized by a population of cells that grow and divide without respect to normal limits, invade and destroy adjacent tissues, and may spread to distant anatomic sites through a process called metastasis. These malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited in their growth and do not invade or metastasize (although some benign tumor types are capable of becoming malignant). Cancer may affect people at all ages, but risk for the more common varieties tends to increase with age. Cancer causes about 13% of all deaths
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Classification of intracranial and Spinal cord tumors include Gliomas,· Meningiomas,· Pineal Region Tumors,· Pituitary Tumors,· Primary Brain Lymphomas,· Spinal Cord Tumors.
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Answer 2

They are about the same thing although a person can have a tumor or some kind of growth that doesn't have cancer cells in it. Non cancerous tumors can be problematic, specially when they are in the brain or near some other vital organ--they take over the space and causes serious problems. Some cancers, such as a brain cancer called medullablastoma, don't have well defined edges, like a tumor might. Removing the cancer surgically is then difficult or impossible. Also sometimes a cancer might start in another part of the body and then cancer cells may travel to other parts of the body, such as the brain. This process is called metastasis.

Answer 3

A simple way to think about it is. A brain tumor is a mass.. ie. the size of a golf ball, baseball and so on. Brain cancer can have an area that it affects but it is more in the cells of where it is. Tumors can grow bigger as to where cancer can spread. Hope this helps to make something complicated into something simple to think about.

Answer 4

What are brain tumors?

The body is made up of many types of cells. Each type of cell has special functions. Most cells in the body grow and then divide in an orderly way to form new cells as they are needed to keep the body healthy and working properly. When cells lose the ability to control their growth, they divide too often and without any order. The extra cells form a mass of tissue called a tumor. Each year, more than 16,000 people find out they have a brain tumor. Tumors are benign or malignant.

Benign brain tumors do not contain cancer cells. Usually these tumors can be removed, and they are not likely to recur. Benign brain tumors have clear borders. Although they do not invade nearby tissue, they can press on sensitive areas of the brain and cause symptoms.

Malignant brain tumors contain cancer cells. They interfere with vital functions and are life-threatening. Malignant brain tumors are likely to grow rapidly and crowd or invade the tissue around them. Like a plant, these tumors may put out "roots" that grow into healthy brain tissue. If a malignant tumor remains compact and does not have roots, it is said to be encapsulated. When an otherwise benign tumor is located in a vital area of the brain and interferes with vital functions, it may be considered malignant (even though it contains no cancer cells).

Doctors refer to some brain tumors by grade - from low grade (grade I) to high grade (grade IV). The grade of a tumor refers to the way the cells look under a microscope. Cells from higher grade tumors are more abnormal looking and generally grow faster than cells from lower grade tumors; higher grade tumors are more malignant than lower grade tumors.

Brain cancer is a disease of the brain where cancer cells (malignant) grow in the brain tissue. Cancer cells grow to form a mass of cancer tissue (tumor) that interferes with brain tissue functions such as muscle control, sensation, memory, and other normal body functions. Tumors composed of cancer cells are called malignant tumors, and those composed of noncancerous cells are called benign tumors. Cancer cells that develop from brain tissue are called primary brain tumors. Statistics suggest that brain cancer is not rare and is likely to develop in about 20,000 people per year.

Answer 5

a brain tumor and brain cancer can be similar, but they are not the same thing. Cancer refers to the type of cells that the growth is made of. A tumor is an abnormal growth or mass, but is not always cancer. Cancer is ussualy a tumor, but a tumor is not always cancerous.

Answer 6

A brain tumor is any intracranial tumor created by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either in the brain itself (neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells), lymphatic tissue, blood vessels), in the cranial nerves (myelin-producing Schwann cells), in the brain envelopes (meninges), skull, pituitary and pineal gland, or spread from cancers primarily located in other organs (metastatic tumors). Primary (true) brain tumors are commonly located in the posterior cranial fossa in children and in the anterior two-thirds of the cerebral hemispheres in adults, although they can affect any part of the brain.

Answer 7

A brain tumor can be malignant or benign, a malignant brain tumor is brain cancer.

Answer 8

A tumour is not cancerous its benign, cancer is carimoma they are two different things if it's not cancer then they can remove the tumour and the person won't need chemo etc. Lucky for being unlucky really.