Types of Brain Tumors Non Cancerous or Benign

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So not all benign tumors or non cancerous require surgery but I tumors of certain types are so

 common that we can just watch them we know that they grow very slowly perhaps they're so

 small like a small little wart on your hand you wouldn't bother you so I have it removed and

the same thing happens in the brain we have these little bumps that can form on the lining of

the skull that are small maybe the size of a pea they're not causing any problems and so we

wouldn't recommend that those be removed but we would recommend that you follow those

because no one can predict which of those little bumps is going to be stable and not grow at all

which ones are going to grow slowly or which ones might grow rapidly and the ones that grow

rapidly of course can get big and once they get big they put pressure on the brain and then

 patients become symptomatic it's a lot harder to deal with when they get big it's much easier

to deal with them when they're small so we try to identify the ones that are going to grow and

 once we see that they're growing we recommend treatment to patients now benign tumors are

the most common type which are called meningioma as they grow from the lining of the

brain they can be treated with surgery but they can also be treated with radiosurgery which is a

 relatively new treatment but extremely effective as effective as surgery for small tumors the

radiosurgery is a type of radiation that's focused like a laser just on the benign tumor itself and

 is extremely effective at killing them and keeping them from growing so in general for

benign tumors that are small the options are observation to see whether it's growing or not if

it is growing than either radial surgery or surgery to effectively treat the tumor for benign

tumors that are larger or perhaps are near critical structures for instance the nerves that go to

the eye which are very sensitive to radiation sometimes surgery becomes the favored

approach just because the side-effects of radio surgery are such that we think surgery is a better option. Next Types of Brain Cancer and Symptoms

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