Is it okay to not have surgery for brain cancer?

Brain cancer is a malignant tumor that occurs in the skull. Generally, surgery cannot completely remove cancer cells in the body. After surgery, patients are advised to undergo chemotherapy to further kill the remaining cancer cells in the body and control the recurrence and metastasis of the tumor. If chemotherapy is not performed, it may cause the disease to develop. The preferred method for treating brain cancer is surgical treatment, because surgical treatment can directly remove the lesion, but after surgery, it must be combined with comprehensive treatment methods such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy. If surgical treatment is not performed, its growth rate is relatively fast, and systemic metastasis may also occur. If brain cancer is not treated with surgery, it may grow rapidly and compress normal brain tissue to cause corresponding symptoms.

How long can you live after surgery for a malignant brain tumor?

Brain tumors can be divided into benign and malignant ones, and the prognosis after treatment varies greatly. If a benign tumor can be completely removed through surgery, it can be cured, and it will not affect life expectancy, and you can survive for a long time. If there is any residue after surgery, gamma knife treatment can be performed, and the survival period is relatively long, generally more than 5 to 10 years. If it is a malignant tumor, it cannot be cured, and the survival period may be 3 to 5 years. If the malignancy is particularly high, it may be several months. If it is a malignant tumor, the survival time is generally not very long. If the malignancy is very high, even a few months can endanger life. How long a patient with a malignant brain tumor can live after surgery mainly depends on the patient's tumor pathology type.

Can early-stage brain cancer be cured?

The concept of brain cancer is not often mentioned in clinical work. Malignant brain tumors are malignant tumors that grow inside the skull. For early-stage brain cancer patients and their families, the first question they want to clarify is whether early-stage brain cancer can be cured. As far as the current treatment status is concerned, malignant brain tumors are still a major problem that has not been conquered in medicine, but this does not mean that having brain cancer is a death sentence. There are also many cases of long-term survival after treatment in clinical practice. Intracranial malignant tumors mainly include gliomas, malignant meningiomas, germ cell tumors, etc. If they are discovered early and timely surgery is performed, they can be completely removed and generally have a good prognosis. Tumors with higher malignancy or malignant tumors that cannot be completely removed must be treated with radiotherapy and other methods, but most have a poor prognosis.