Can glioma really be cured?

Gliomas are neurological malignant brain tumors. Once they occur, they cause great harm to the human body. Some patients even suffer from extreme pain. Moreover, the incidence rate is gradually increasing. Therefore, active treatment is required after the onset of the disease. So, can gliomas really be cured?

Gliomas are common in children and adolescents, especially those aged 5 to 9 years old. Gliomas are common intracranial malignant tumors, characterized by infiltrative growth, unclear boundaries, and easy recurrence. They are the most common primary tumors in the brain. Surgical treatment of gliomas in the functional areas of the brain is a difficult problem in the clinical work of neurosurgery. The highest goal of surgical treatment of gliomas is to remove the lesions to the greatest extent possible, while protecting normal brain function as much as possible, while preserving nerve function to the greatest extent possible and avoiding postoperative neurological function loss. This not only improves the patient's postoperative quality of life, but also can obtain a satisfactory long-term prognosis.

The survival and quality of life of patients with brain gliomas are closely related to the degree of surgical resection. The treatment of brain gliomas has always been one of the problems that plague neurosurgeons, especially the surgical treatment of gliomas in the functional areas of the brain (cortical and subcortical pathways closely related to language, motor and sensory functions) and low-grade gliomas is a difficult problem in the clinical work of neurosurgery. The main contradiction is the trade-off between the degree of tumor resection and neurological function. At present, comprehensive treatment with surgery as the main method is advocated. Surgical treatment is still the most commonly used and most effective treatment method for brain gliomas in functional areas. Complete tumor resection is the main means to improve the patient's survival and quality of life. However, conventional surgical methods for resection of gliomas located in functional areas often cannot achieve maximum resection because they are prone to neurological dysfunction. One of the main reasons is that the surgeon cannot correctly distinguish the relationship between the cortical and subcortical structures of the functional area and the lesions during the operation. Therefore, how to perform surgery on gliomas in the functional area of ​​the brain has always been a concern of neurosurgery research institutes. However, early treatment and active surgery are still very important for disease control!