{"id":151,"date":"2019-11-15T09:28:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T09:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2020-02-15T10:41:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T10:41:17","slug":"brain-tumor-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/diseases\/brain-tumor-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Tumor in Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Generally<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A brain tumor<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the most common cancers in children.\u00a0About 95 of the almost 350 children and adolescents who get cancer every year have a brain tumor.\u00a0But there are many different types of brain tumors that are also treated differently.\u00a0The brain is part of the central nervous system.\u00a0All central nervous system tumors are taken care of by pediatric neurologists and pediatric oncologists, including non-cancerous tumors. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most brain tumors in children<\/em> do not spread through metastases but grow only in one place.\u00a0The treatment is to remove the tumor.\u00a0Many children get well, but complications of treatment are common.\u00a0How severe these complications depend on where in the brain or the rest of the central nervous system the tumor is located and what treatment the child is receiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symptoms<\/strong> of a brain tumor in children<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Some children may have had headaches or vomiting frequently and inexplicably, often in the morning when they wake up.\u00a0Other children may just have been very tired for a shorter or longer time and have had difficulty keeping up with their everyday life or schoolwork.\u00a0Symptoms in young children may be that they are late in development and appear to feel poor or have difficulty eating.\u00a0One symptom may also be that the head grows faster than expected.\u00a0Sometimes you see it yourself as a parent, other times it is discovered during a check on BVC.\u00a0The symptoms can thus vary greatly depending on the age of the child and the location of the tumor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a doctor suspects that the symptoms may be due to cancer, the child may have a\u00a0\u00a0computer tomography\u00a0or a\u00a0\u00a0magnetic camera examination.\u00a0Young children may need to be\u00a0anesthetized\u00a0for\u00a0anesthesia\u00a0because they have to lie completely still.\u00a0The studies do not hurt.\u00a0The computed tomography only takes a few minutes.\u00a0A magnetic camera examination takes longer and for those who are awake can be perceived as strenuous because the camera sounds a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treatment<\/strong>\u00a0for a brain tumor in children<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The most common is that the tumor is removed by surgery. Sometimes the doctor first needs to take a sample, a so-called biopsy, from the tumor to be completely sure of what kind of tumor it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family and the child must meet the doctor who will perform the surgery to know how the operation is going and to be able to ask questions before the treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the operation, a treatment conference with various specialists assesses whether any further treatment for brain tumors in children<\/strong> is needed or not.\u00a0It depends on what kind of tumor it is and where it sits, whether the entire tumor could be removed or not, and the child’s age.\u00a0The continued treatment can sometimes be a new operation, radiotherapy or cytostatic treatment.\u00a0Some children receive a combination of several treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treating a growing brain provides various short and long term complications for most children. Sometimes the complications are not noticed much. Some children get quite severe complications that can affect life for a long time. Radiation therapy is the main cause of complications, apart from the tumor itself. It is common for the levels of various hormones to be affected so that, for example, the child grows more slowly after treatment. It is also common for children to have impaired mobility and learning ability can also be affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the follow-up care after treatment for brain tumors<\/em> is about giving the child support and help to develop as well as possible.\u00a0A neuropsychological examination can show which functions the child may need extra support with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All children may go on post-check-ups quite often for several years, partly to find out if the disease is coming back, and partly to see how the body works and develops after treatment.\u00a0If you have received radiotherapy you need to be followed up for the rest of your life but at different long intervals.\u00a0This also applies to certain treatments with cytostatic drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brain tumor is one of the most common cancers in children. About 95 of the almost 350 children and adolescents who get cancer every year have a brain tumor. But there are many different types of brain tumors that are also treated differently. The brain is part of the central nervous system . All central nervous system tumors are taken care of by pediatric neurologists and pediatric oncologists, including non-cancerous tumors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22,45],"tags":[146,147,46,148],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diseases","category-cancer","category-cancer-cancer","tag-brain-tumor","tag-brain-tumor-in-children","tag-cancer-in-children","tag-childhood-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}