What is brain glioblastoma?

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Glioblastoma is the most malignant astrocytoma. The tumors are located in the subcortical region and most of them grow in the supratentorial hemisphere. It usually invades several cerebral lobes and deep structures. It can also spread to the contralateral cerebral hemisphere through the corpus callosum. What is brain glioblastoma? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What is brain glioblastoma?

The growth rate of glioblastoma is fast. The course of disease of 70% - 80% patients is 3-6 months. Only 10% patients have a course of more than one year. The longer the course of disease, the more malignant astrocytoma. Due to the rapid growth of tumor, extensive brain edema, increased intracranial pressure symptoms, all patients have headache, vomiting symptoms.

Optic disc edema includes headache, mental change, limb weakness, vomiting, disturbance of consciousness and speech disturbance. The tumor infiltrates and destroys brain tissue, causing a series of focal symptoms. The patients have different degrees of hemiplegia, hemiparesthesia, aphasia and hemiblindness.

Nervous system examination can find hemiplegia, cerebral nerve damage, hemiparesthesia and hemiblindness. The incidence of epilepsy is less than astrocytoma and oligodendroglioma, and some patients have seizures. Some patients showed apathy, dementia, mental retardation and other mental symptoms.

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Should be light based, reasonable diet, pay attention to adequate nutrition. Patients can drink more milk, lotus root powder and fresh fruit juice, and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. Eat more immunity enhancing food. Enhance the ability to fight the disease.