Amritsar: As many as 100 people attended a patient’s awareness session on brain tumour to mark ‘World Brain Tumour Day’ at Ivy Hospital here on Saturday.
Addressing the session, Dr Yanish Bhanot associate director neurosurgery & neuro intervention said that brain tumours account for about 2% of all cancers. Around 500 new cases of brain tumours are diagnosed every day worldwide and most of them are not inheritable.
“Brain tumours can occur at all ages and as of now, no definite cause has been found for their origin with no any such specific preventive measures that can be taken to prevent it.”
Dr Sarabjit Singh senior neurologist said that risk of brain tumour can be reduced by avoiding environmental hazards such as smoking and excessive radiation exposure.
He said , “All our functions, from eating to speaking to walking etc, and all our emotions, from love to hate, are controlled by the brain, the spinal cord and nerves that are intimately connected. The brain is housed in a rigid shell (skull) and the body maintains a rather homogenous atmosphere, air conditioned & shock proof, inside the skull. Abnormal growth of tissues inside the skull leads to the formation of a tumour which causes local destruction and pressure on surrounding normal tissues.”
Dr Jagbir Singh neurologist said that now advanced technologies have made it possible for the neuro experts to venture in areas which were, for long, considered to be unapproachable or have unacceptable levels of risk of injury.,
He further said that incidence and prevalence of brain tumour is growing rapidly in India. Every year 40,000 to 50,000 people are diagnosed with brain tumour which reduces life expectancy by 20 years.
