Severe brain tumours may make people to lose balance on the ground. Its effects may kill skin colour, and affect growth.

To some people, the problem worsens after being diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour. Radiotherapy, one of the methods doctors use in the treatment of brain tumours may also affect someone’s balance on the ground, according to Dr. Richard Idro, a neuro paediatrician at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.

Dr. Idro says that brain cancers in children are fatal if not detected and managed properly in its initial stages.  Around the world, hundreds of people, especially children of all ages have lost their lives to brain cancer.

Dr. Idro says that the actual cause of brain cancer is not known. Cancerous brain tumours may be either primary or secondary. Primary cancerous brain tumours may develop in the brain. But secondary brain tumours develop when cells from a cancer that started in different parts of the body spreads to the brain.

Walakira Nyanzi

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