What is glioma

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Glioma is a kind of disease caused by tumor, which is different from other tumor diseases. This kind of disease is often more difficult to cure than other tumor diseases. Now let's learn more about glioma.

What is glioma

First, the course of glioma varies according to its pathological type and location. The time from symptoms to treatment is usually weeks to months, and a few can be years. The history of tumors with high degree of malignancy and posterior fossa is shorter, and that of benign tumors or tumors located in the so-called quiet zone is longer. If the tumor has bleeding or cyst formation, the development process of symptoms can be accelerated, and some can even be similar to the development process of cerebrovascular disease. 　　

Second, there are two main symptoms. One is intracranial pressure and other general symptoms, such as headache, vomiting, vision loss, diplopia, seizures and mental symptoms. The other is the local symptoms caused by the compression, infiltration and destruction of brain tissue by tumor, resulting in the loss of nerve function. 　　

Third: headache is mostly caused by increased intracranial pressure, tumor growth, gradually increased intracranial pressure, compression, involving intracranial pain sensitive structures such as blood vessels, dura and some cranial nerves, resulting in headache. Most of them are throbbing pain and distending pain, most of them are located in frontotemporal or occipital parts.

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Therefore, glioma is a relatively difficult disease to treat, but patients should not worry too much. After all, whatever the disease is, there is a possibility of cure. What's more, this disease is not cancer at all.