Wow. 1 out of 10 people could have a brain tumor

[lonestarnot]

PHOENIX -- It's a scary statistic but some medical experts believe up to one in 10 people could have a brain tumor.

The good news is that most of these tumors are tiny in your pituitary gland and will never interfere with your life.

But doctors at Barrow Neurological Institute say sometimes these tumors can become larger and more dangerous. That's why teams of neurosurgeons at Barrow are now focusing on these pituitary tumors and the health problems they can cause including blindness.

http://www.kpho.com/news/27591214/detail.html

[drm604]

1. So the 1 in 10 statistic is really meaningless isn't it?

The only important statistic is how many of those will eventually impact the persons life. The ones that don't do anything aren't important.

[flamingdem]

2. Yay, coffee and tea might fight brain tumors

http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Coping-with-fallput-by-John-Peebles-110418-128.html

[lonestarnot]

5. Thanks for the link. Totally depressing. Made my bones hurt.

:hi:

[readmoreoften]

3. I actually have one and I'm seeing an endocrinology for it soon. Had it for years.

It causes weight gain and that's the major problem I'm dealing with. The medicine makes me really sick though. On edit: pituitary tumor.

[lonestarnot]

4. I'm sorry readmoreoften.

:hug:

[medeak]

14. have angioma in brain...

great excuse for being retard at times. ;-)

[mucifer]

6. Cancer is weird. I'm a pediatric nurse. Some babies have a tumor

called neuroblastoma that are is serious and they can die from the tumor. Other babies get the tumor and it goes away by itself. Doctors believe there are many babies who get the tumor and it goes away and no one ever knew the baby had it. With neuroblastomas they say the prognosis is better the younger the child is when diagnosed.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002381/

[Turbineguy]

7. That may be

but 90% are teabaggers.:evilgrin:

[safeinOhio]

8. I had an MRI of my brain

and they didn't find anything.

:silly:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

9. Sorry. Can't respond right now. Gotta take this call on my cell phone...

;(

[cliffordu]

10. kewell....Now I have an excuse.

[lonestarnot]

11. Snort!

Great minds think alike! :7

[Lisa0825]

12. My friend had a brain tumor that was starting to interfere with hormones.

She had it removed through a procedure through her nose... no incision or anything. Good as new.

Another friend had a tumor twice the size of a golf ball that appeared quickly and grew quickly. She had it removed last month, and she is back at work already.

Modern medicine is amazing!

[BadgerKid]

13. I've heard a theory that micro-cancers are ever present

in the body throughout life. It's when your body can't stay ahead is when things start going badly.

[Lochloosa]

15. Well, that explains the tea baggers.

[LWolf]

16. My ex, the father of my children,

was killed by his brain tumor. He passed 10 years ago this week.

I don't remember where his was placed, except that it was inoperable.