Dr. Roberto Lastra during his time on the program What’s wrong with me, doctor? from La Sexta explained brain tumor surgery to a 78-year-old patient with a brain glioma, the most common tumor, with intraoperative fluorescence.
Dr. Roberto Lastra, neurosurgeon at Neuroclínica Quirúrgica BCN, which is a medical institute specialized in neurosurgery, located at the Teknon Medical Center in Barcelona, addresses brain tumors in the program ‘What’s wrong with me, doctor?’ on La Sexta.
Every year 3,500 new cases of brain tumors are diagnosed in Spain. A pathology that can appear at any age, but whose incidence increases in childhood between 5 and 14 years of age and in adults from 45 years of age, affecting men more. In children, brain tumors are usually primary, that is, the tumor mass originates in the brain. But in adults the most common are secondary or metastatic tumors, which come from other tumors, especially lung and breast tumors.
It is a disease that encompasses more than 120 types of tumors. «The most common brain tumors are medulloblastomas in children and gliomas in adults», highlights Dr. Lastra.
Regarding the symptoms, the expert states that “some of the main ones are epileptic seizures, vomiting or visual disturbances.”
In recent years, the progress that has occurred in neurosurgery, which uses intraoperative imaging techniques that allow greater precision, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, have meant that survival and cure rates have evolved very favorably.
High-definition Magnetic Resonance is the essential diagnostic test in tumor localization.
