Will I die after glioma surgery

We are not unfamiliar with glioma, which is a malignant tumor of the brain. Now more and more people are suffering from this disease and are tormented. Some people have undergone surgery, but still have attacks and are still tormented by the disease. So, will you die after glioma surgery?

There are usually no typical symptoms at the beginning of glioma. As the tumor continues to grow, the following symptoms will appear: one is increased intracranial pressure and other general symptoms, such as headache, vomiting, vision loss, diplopia, epileptic seizures and mental symptoms. The other is local symptoms caused by the compression, infiltration and destruction of brain tissue by the tumor. The local symptoms vary depending on the location of the tumor.

Glioma is an infiltrative growth with no clear boundary between it and normal brain tissue. It is difficult to completely remove it, is not very sensitive to radiotherapy or chemotherapy, and is very prone to recurrence. Benign and malignant tumors growing in important parts of the brain are difficult to remove surgically or cannot be removed at all. Chemical drugs and general anti-tumor Chinese medicines are not ideal in efficacy due to the influence of factors such as the blood-brain barrier. Therefore, brain glioma is still one of the tumors with the worst prognosis among all tumors in the body.

Glioma surgery: Surgical treatment is based on the growth characteristics of gliomas. In theory, it is impossible to completely remove them by surgery. Some tumors growing in important parts such as the brainstem cannot be operated on at all. Therefore, the purpose of surgical treatment can only be limited to the following five aspects: ① Clear pathological diagnosis; ② Reduce tumor volume and reduce the number of tumor cells; ③ Improve symptoms and relieve symptoms of high intracranial pressure; ④ Prolong life and create opportunities for subsequent other comprehensive treatments; ⑤ Obtain tumor cell dynamics data to provide a basis for finding effective treatments. According to the growth location and growth characteristics, about 50% cannot be completely removed. In order to avoid functional damage after surgery, even if it is a complete resection, there will still be residual tumors in the primary site, so it is difficult to cure, and the recurrence rate is very high. The fastest recurrence of gliomas of grade 3 and 4 is about one month, and the slowest is half a year.