how can you cure brain tumour?

Question: how can you cure brain tumour?
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  brain tumour,
  cure
Asked by MY NAME JEFF to Chris, Hayley, Jimi, Maddison, Omur on 14 Mar 2016.
- Maddison Coke answered on 14 Mar 2016:
  
  So I am a nanotechnologist and one interesting way to cure tumors that is being trialed involves nanotechnology! The idea is that we send loads of gold nanoparticles to the tumor. Then we can shine an X-ray on the tumor.
  
  Gold absorbs x-rays which means that all of the gold nanoparticles will get really hot and zap the tumor. Go nanotechnology!
- Omur Tastan answered on 14 Mar 2016:
  
  This is a very good question! Many people are diagnosed with brain tumors and although tricky we can cure some of them.
  Generally the first thing is to try and surgically remove the tumors if they are accessible. Then there are treatments called radiotherapy and chemotherapy. With radiotherapy, they use special lights to burn the tumors. What Maddison mentioned is amazing, if those nano gold particles can be targeted to the brain tumors efficiently, that would make life so much easier!! Then generally chemotherapy will follow,which is a combination of medicines that help patients shrink their tumors or keep it under control. After all these treatments patients come back for check ups. Tumors can be sneaky and one should always check to see if they come back or not. Remember early detection is the key!
- Hayley Moulding answered on 14 Mar 2016:
  
  When people are diagnosed with brain tumours it is an unbelievably hard thing to try and understand. The brain is amazingly complex and really difficult to understand – no one really does fully understand it. So when we try and get rid of brain tumours, we have to be really careful not to change the brain. What happens as people have brain scans and we try and see where the brain tumour is first before we do anything. What we do once we see where the tumour is to try and do some surgery and remove the tumour.
  Sometimes it is hard because we can’t see the tumour and it is really deep into the brain. What we can do is try and do radiotherapy and chemotherapy. By doing this, lights and chemicals can be used to try and make the tumour smaller, and try and completely get rid of the tumour.
  It is really difficult though and we need to make sure all of the tumour has gone so more scans are done. Sometimes we can’t get rid of it, but if we see the tumour early there is a good chance surgeons can get rid of it.
- Jimi Wills answered on 15 Mar 2016:
  
  Luckily, brain tumours are usually made of non-nerve cells so we don’t need to try to remove any nerves from the brain. But it’s so difficult.
  
  In the future, either nanotechnology, like Maddison’s, or viral therapy (viruses that attack the tumour) are probably the best candidates.
  
  But a the moment, all we can do is try surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy.

Question: how can you cure brain tumour?

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