2. Testing for brain cancer involves getting a health history on the patient

3. Brain cancer unfortunately has a fair to poor prognosis

4. Children can have a better prognosis than adults

5. Cancer is the number one killer in children

6. Every day 9 children in the US are diagnosed with cancer

7. Brain cancer research is underfunded

8. Brain tumors are the leading cause in death from childhood cancer

9. In the year 2000, 359,000 people were diagnosed with brain cancer

10. Brain cancer can come from many different types of brain cells

How someone gets brain cancer

Metastatic brain cancer is caused by the spread of cancer cells from a body organ to the brain. Causes are not known for why a normal cell changes to a cancer cell, in both metastatic and brain tumors. Data has been gathered from research investigators and has been documented as showing people with certain risk factors are more likely to develop brain cancer. Some risk factors would be, handlers of jet fuel chemicals, chemists, or rubber industry workers. This professions show a higher rate of brain cancer than the general public.

Symptoms of Brain Cancer

1. Weakness

2. Difficulty walking

3. Seizures

4. Headaches

5. Blurry vision

Treatments for Brain Cancer

Treatment plans are individualized for each patient, this plan is constructed by doctors who are specialist's in this field of cancer. Some options made for treatment are:

1. Surgery

2. Radiation Therapy

3. Chemotherapy

These 3 treatments are the main treatment categories made available to patients with brain cancer. As far as which one is most effective in treatment depends on several factors.

1.Size of tumor

2. Type of tumor

3. Grade of tumor

Important factors in deciding ones treatment will rely on the answers to the following questions.

4. Is the tumor putting pressure on vital parts of the brain

5. Has the cancer spread to other parts of the body

6. Last but not least, what are the patients preferences and over all health

As far as knowing which treatment is best for brain cancer, I'm not sure how to answer. Given there are so many different things that have to be taken into consideration for treatment, everyones case is different. The most talked about treatments are listed above, Surgery, Radiation, and Chemotherapy.

The above treatment procedures for brain cancer are extremely effective and successful ways to get rid of this deadly cancer. Doctors across the world will follow one or various treatments  to try and cure the problem completely.