from Wikipedia:

Brain metastasis in the right cerebral hemisphere from lung cancer shown on T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging with intravenous contrast.A brain tumor is an intracranial solid neoplasm, a tumor (defined as an abnormal growth of cells) within thebrain or the central spinal canal.

Any brain tumor is inherently serious and life-threatening because of its invasive and infiltrative character in the limited space of the intracranial cavity. However, brain tumors (even malignant ones) are not invariably fatal, especially lipomas which are inherently benign. Brain tumors or intracranial neoplasms can becancerous (malignant) or non-cancerous (benign); however, the definitions of malignant or benign neoplasmsdiffers from those commonly used in other types of cancerous or non-cancerous neoplasms in the body. Its threat level depends on the combination of factors like the type of tumor, its location, its size and its state of development. Because the brain is well protected by the skull, the early detection of a brain tumor only occurs when diagnostic tools are directed at the intracranial cavity. Usually detection occurs in advanced stages when the presence of the tumor has caused unexplained symptoms.

Primary (true) brain tumors are commonly located in the posterior cranial fossa in children and in the anterior two-thirds of the cerebral hemispheres in adults, although they can affect any part of the brain.

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TEST CASE 

•  Name: Frida
• Nationality: Belgium
• The case: Brain cancer, after tumour has been removed and radiation therapy.

•  Frida has been in bed since 2005.

• Start of the process: The process of reversing paralises (only), started on June 12^th of 2011.

• After 10 weeks, she could stand on her own and take her first steps without any medication and physiotherapy as the body resets its function and the organs become to operate as before the unset of the paralises.
• In this video, Frida gives her first impressions after one and then twelfth week of using the plasma reactor technology of the Foundation.

Watch her progress in this video

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