A Guide to Brain Cancer
How many times have you brushed away the thought of persistent headaches by saying, “I didn’t sleep well last night”? Numerous times, we believe. Something as trivial as nausea, unconsciousness or a mild headache might refer to a common cold virus, migraine, thyroid problems and in rare yet exponentially increasing cases, brain cancer. Cancer is a slow poison spreading and cutting through the flesh of mankind, almost like a rebel without a cause because researchers, doctors, and scientists have still not pinpointed the very reason and cause that is initiating this silent plague. In the human body, the growth and regulation of cells are impressively organized and controlled. However, in the oncogenic(cancerous) transformation of cells, the conventional mechanisms are thrown out of the window. Healthy cells possess a property called contact inhibition which aids the inhibition of uncontrolled growth of a given cell upon contact with another cell. This property ceases to ex...