Primary spinal cancer or spinal cord or column tumors are tumors that form from cells within the spinal cord itself or from its surrounding structures. Most tumors of the spine are metastatic tumors, which spread to the spine from another part of the body. Metastatic tumors occur in the central nervous system about 10 times more frequently than primary tumors.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Along with the brain, the spinal cord forms part of the central nervous (CNS). The spinal cord is a column of nerve tissue that extends from the base of the brain down the back. It is surrounded by three protective membranes and is enclosed within the vertebrae (bones of the spine). It carries important messages between the brain and the rest of the body.
Spinal cancer is a relatively rare condition, with about 1 in 140 men and 1 in 180 women developing the disease in their lifetime. Brain tumors are more common than spinal tumors.
Causes of spinal cancer
The causes of spinal tumors and cancers are well known, cancer itself is not a disease but a fungus (parasite) said Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS; there are evidences links vitamin D deficiency with an increased risk of cancer.
In a 2008 case-control study published in the journal Carcinogenesis, researchers found that with low vitamin D in the blood had an increased risk of cancer.
The study observed cancer patients between the ages of 50 and 74. In total, 1,394 cases and 1,365 controls were used in the study. Another case-control study from 2014 suggested that less than an hour of sunlight daily could reduce cancer risk.
Although some genetic conditions may contribute to the development of spinal cancer, the risk factors are much less defined for spinal cancer than for other forms of cancer.
Known risk factors for spine cancer include:
- Prior history of cancer, with breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer and multiple myeloma most likely to spread to the spine.
- Compromised immune system.
- Hereditary disorders, including Von Hippel-Lindau disease and neurofibromatosis (NF2).
- Radiation therapy exposure.
- Chemical exposure, especially industrial chemicals.
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There is no clear picture of any group of individuals more at risk for spinal cancer, other than statistics that show men are diagnosed with the disease at a slightly higher rate than women. Having some hereditary diseases, a compromised immune system, excess use of allopathic drugs, previous radiation therapy or exposure to some chemicals may increase the risk of developing spinal cancer.
Types of spinal tumors
Most tumors on the spine metastasize to the spine from elsewhere in the body. Cancers that appear in the central nervous system as primary spinal tumors may include:
- Chondrosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that forms in cartilage.
- Chordoma, a type of bone cancer that commonly appears in the sacrum, in the lower back at the base of the spine.
- Ewing sarcoma, a type of bone cancer that affects the bone and surrounding soft tissue.
- Lymphoma (also called primary non-Hodgkin lymphoma or extra nodal lymphoma), a type of cancer that affects lymphocytes, the cells of the immune system.
- Multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer that affects plasma in the blood cells.
- Osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that weakens the bone.
Many spinal tumors are benign (non-cancerous), but they may also cause serious problems as they grow and put pressure on spinal tissue and nerves. Common types of benign tumors of the spine include ependymomas, astrocytomas, meningiomas, schwannomas and hemangioblastomas.
Spinal cancer tumors are sometimes divided into the four regions where they may occur:
- Extradural tumors or epidural tumors, which form inside the spinal column, often in the space surrounding the outer membrane (dura).
- Intradural tumors, which form inside the dura.
- Intramedullary tumors, which are intradural tumors that grow inside the spinal cord.
- Intradural-extramedullary tumors, which are tumors that form in the meninges outside the spinal cord.
Spinal cancer symptoms
The most noticeable sign of spinal cancer is pain. Pain may come from the tumor’s location in the spinal column, as it pushes on sensitive nerve endings or causes spinal instability.
When the tumor presses on the spinal cord, symptoms may begin with numbness or tingling in the arms or legs. Next, spinal cancer patients may experience clumsiness, an unease from not knowing where their feet are, and difficulty with buttons or keys. Spinal cancer symptoms may grow to include weakness, inability to move the legs and, potentially, paralysis.
Some common signs of spinal tumors may include:
- Back pain.
- Pain in the neck, arms or legs.
- Muscle weakness or numbness in the arms or legs.
- Difficulty walking.
- General loss of sensation.
- Difficulty with urination (incontinence).
- Change in bowel habits (loss of bowel control).
- Paralysis to varying degrees.
- Spinal deformities.
- Pain or difficulty with standing.
Diagnosing spinal cancer
Tests and tools for diagnosing spinal cancer may include:
- Angiography.
- Lumbar puncture or a spinal tap.
- Nuclear medicine bone scan.
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
- Computed tomography (CT) scan.
- Positron emission tomography (PET)/CT scan.
- X-ray.
Allopathic treatment for spinal cancer
Allopathic treatment options for spinal cancer may include:
- Surgery, which may be used to:
- Remove cancer cells from one portion of the spinal column.
- Relieve symptoms of a metastatic spinal tumor.
- Remove tissue pressing up against the spinal cord and nerves.
- Relieve the buildup of cerebrospinal fluid.
- Chemotherapy.
- Radiation therapy.
- Interventional radiology, including taking biopsies, delivering treatment directly to the spine tumors, providing palliative treatment and monitoring response to treatment.
- Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty for treating compression fractures of the spinal vertebrae.
- Targeted therapy, including monoclonal antibodies, which work to stop the formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) that a tumor needs to grow.
Homeopathic treatment of Brain Cancers and Tumers
Homeopathy or immunotherapy is a treatment that uses the patient’s immune system to fight disease or cancer. It is now used in the management of several different types of cancer. With Homeopathy/immunotherapy, substances made by the body or made from natural sources are used to strengthen the body’s natural defenses against cancer.
The aim of homeopathy is not only to treat any type of cancer and there symptoms but to address its underlying cause and individual susceptibility.
As far as therapeutic medication is concerned, several well-proved remedies are available for treatment of different types of cancers that can be selected on the basis of cause, condition, sensation, extension, location and modalities of the complaints.
That’s why for individualized remedy selection and treatment, the patient should consult a qualified Homeopathic doctor in person.
Exposure to any type of radiation is not an option, said Dr Qaisar Ahmed (MD, DHMS). I (Dr. Qaisar Ahmed) categorically reject radiation for living things.
In the Cancer Treatment the selection of remedy is based upon the theory of individualization and symptoms similarity by using holistic approach.
This is the only way through which a state of complete health can be regained by removing all the sign and symptoms from which the patient is suffering.
Basically, radiation and chemotherapy do not shrink the tumor or kill the colony; the cancer stem cells remains but now more violent, which can cause an aggressive cancer recurrence in the near future. The chemotherapy and radiation pretty much just make the cancer stem cells angry.
The breast tissue abnormality ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) was once considered cancerous, but is now believed to be benign. DCIS may also progress to invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), which is a more serious breast cancer risk, though it may not develop into breast cancer.
Conventional therapy “radiotherapy, chemotherapy, lumpectomies, and mastectomies for DCIS and IDC cases” do not work but aggravate the disease.
However, the aforementioned study found that the vitamin D3 compound BXL0124 normalized the cell culture system (in Homeopathy there are lot of cases cured by Calcarea Carbonica), which included non-stem cell and breast cancer stem cells and Colon or Colorectal, pancreatic cancer cells.
A new study published in The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology last year found that vitamin D compounds suppress cancer stem cell population, which may inhibit cancer growth.
Vitamin D compounds also repressed cancer stem cell properties, the pluripotency markers OCT4 and KLF-4, and the cell markers CD44, CD49f, pNFkB, and c-Notch1. Simply put, vitamin D3 gives cancer stem cells a run for their money.
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Here are very few medicines proven well in my clinical practice (Dr. Qaisar Ahmed):
Plumbum Metallicum
Mental depression. Quiet melancholy. Slow perception; loss of memory; amnesic aphasia. Hallucinations and delusions. Intellectual apathy. Memory impaired. Paretic dementia. Weakness or loss of memory. Slow of perception; increasing apathy. Unable to find proper word while talking. Coma. Imbecility. Dementia. Mania. Delirium; alternating with colic. Fury. Frantic delirium (bites, strikes).
Head: Delirium alternating with colic. Pain as if a ball rose from throat to brain. Heaviness of head. Hair very dry. Tinnitus. Dizziness to the extent of failing senseless. Tearing in forehead and temples. Lancinating headache. Congestion of blood to head, with pulsation and heat. Violent pains in integuments of skull from occiput to forehead. Occasional sudden diminution of hearing. Loss of smell.
Bloated Ness of face. Semi lateral swelling of face. Paralysis of lower two branches of facial nerve. Hippocratic face. Boring in lower jaw. Exfoliation (painless) of lips. Cramps in jaw. Lockjaw.
Eyes: Pupils contracted. Yellow. Optic nerve inflamed. Intraocular, suppurative inflammation. Paralysis of upper eyelids. Glaucoma, especially if secondary to spinal lesion. Optic neuritis, central scotoma. Sudden loss of sight after fainting. Hypopyon. Myopia. Diplopia. Blindness, as from amaurosis. Optic neuritis.
Convulsive movements of arms and hands. Weakness and painful paralysis of arms and hands. Painful sensation of paralysis in lower extremities. Numbness of legs and feet
China officinalis
As if skull would burst. Severe headache. Dizzy when walking. Black specks, bright dazzling illusions; night blindness in anemic retina. Spots before eyes. Photophobia. Distortion of eyeballs. Intermittent ciliary neuralgia. Pressure in eyes. Ringing in ears (Tinnitus).
Carboneum Sulphuratum
Hallucinations. Headache and dizziness. Noises in head. Senselessness of lips/tongue etc. Optic neuritis. Vision greatly impaired. Color-blindness. Hearing impaired. Tinnitus atrium. Meniere’s disease. Numbness of arms and hands.
Barita Carbonica
Loss of memory, mental weakness. Irresolute. Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending through head. Brain feels as if loose. Hair falls out. Confusion. Wens.
Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils. Photophobia. Gauze before eyes. Cataracts. Pressure in brain under vertex, towards occiput. with stiffness of neck. Digging in the head, with a sensation of looseness of the brain. Numbness in skin of forehead to root of nose. Aching and burning pain in the eyes. Specks flying about, and black spots before the eyes. Sparks before the eyes in the dark. Dazzling of the eyes by the light.
Ears: Hardness of hearing. Crackling noise. Nocturnal pulsation in the ears. Glands around ears painful and swollen. Reverberation on blowing nose. Tinkling and roaring in the ears. Cracking in the ears on swallowing, on sneezing, and on walking quickly. Tearing in bone in front of ear.
Trembling of the hand when writing. Tension in the legs, as if the tendons were too short. Inquietude and trembling in the legs and feet, with paralytic weakness, or tension, as if from contraction of the tendons, in different parts. Paralysis and palsy of aged persons. Shakings and starlings of some of the limbs, and of the whole body.
Thuja Occidentalis
Headache as if pierced by a nail. Ciliary neuralgia. Tarsal tumors. Limbs feel as if made of wood or glass. Muscular twitching, weakness and trembling.
Hydrastis
Cancer. Chancroids. Headache. Severe frontal headache. Taste, disordered. Throat, deafness. Throat, sore. Tongue affections.
Calcaria Carbonicum
Headache, with cold hands and feet. Icy coldness in and on the head. Epilepsy. Hydrocephalus. Hypochondriasis. Paralysis. Attacks of semi-lateral headache, with risings and nausea. Sudden attacks of paralytic weakness in the arms. Tingling in the fingers, as when they are asleep. Frequent paralytic weakness in the fingers. Heavy movement of the fingers. Contraction of the fingers. Panaras. Cramps and contractions of the limbs.
Argentum Nitricum
Addison’s disease. Anemia. Chancre. Dyspepsia. Epilepsy. Locomotor ataxy. Neuralgia. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Paralysis. Prostate enlargement. Dullness, mental confusion, dizziness, tendency to fall sideways. Momentarily blind with mental confusion; buzzing in ears, nausea, trembling. Digging up, incisive motion, through the l. hemisphere of the brain. Pressing boring pains, in small spots; in bones. Hemicrania; epileptiform; periodic; boring pain. Paralytic heaviness and debility.
Cicuta Virosa
Cancer. Catalepsy. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Coccygodynia. Concussions. Convulsions. Eczema. Epilepsy. Paralysis. Dementia. Giddiness and absence of mind. Giddiness with falling. Pupils either much contracted or dilated. Suspension of the sight. The objects appear double and black. Stratings and convulsive movements (involuntary) in the arms and in the fingers. Deadness of the fingers. Attacks of catalepsy, with relaxation of all the muscles, and absence of respiration. Tetanus.
Belladonna
Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system. Vertigo with falling. Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing. Convulsive motion of muscles of face. Photophobia; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmos. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia, vanishing of sight and great debility.
Conium Maculatum
Headache, stupefying, with nausea and vomiting. Photophobia. Paralysis of ocular muscles. Crawling/tingling in the arms and in the hands. Extremities are heavy, weary, paralyzed; trembling; bands unsteady; fingers and toes numb. Muscular weakness, especially of lower extremities. Perspiration of hands. Putting feet on chair relieves pain.
Kalium Iodatum
Violent headache. Brain feels enlarged. Hard nodes, with severe pain. Facial neuralgia. Lancinating pain in upper jaw.
Arsenicum Bromatum
Glandular tumors and indurations, carcinoma, locomotor ataxia.
Hydrastis Canadensis
Cancer. Chancroids. Dull, heavy frontal headache over eyes. Profuse secretion of tears; smarting and burning of eyes and lids. Roaring in the ears like machinery. Otorrhea, thick mucus discharge (fetid). Partial stoppage of Eustachian tube. Throat deafness. Muscles greatly weakened. Scrofulous and cancerous cachexia. Cancers hard, adherent, skin mottled, puckered, cutting like knives in mammae.
Iodum
Appetite, disordered. Atrophy. Brain, atrophy of. Breasts, affections of. Cancer. Chilblains. Chyluria. Constipation. Consumption. Coryza. Cough. Croup. Debility. Diabetes. Diarrhea. Diphtheria. Emaciation. Enteric fever. Galactorrhea. Goiter Hemorrhoids. Headaches. dizziness. Vertigo; throbbing in the head and all over the body. Vertigo with red face, palpitation, hysteria, nervousness. Headache, in hot air. Pain, as from a bruise, in the brain, with want of strength in the body, as from paralysis. Acute pressive pains in the forehead. Headache, as if a tape or band were tightly drawn around the head.
Watery white swelling of the eyelids. Dirty yellowish color of the sclerotic. Protrusion of the balls. Lachrymation. Convulsive movements and quivering of the eyes; of the (lower) eyelids. Weak sight. Dimness of vision. Diplopia. Sparks and scintillations before the eyes.
Buzzing in the ears. Hardness of hearing. Sensibility to noise.
Cadmium Sulphuratum
Corneal opacity. Eyes, affections of. Facial paralysis. Indigestion. Meningitis. Nasal polypus. Constriction; stitches; pulsation. Hammering in the head, preceding vomiting. Headache with restlessness, icy coldness of body, epistaxis, constriction in throat, thirst, nausea, vomiting; mostly present when awaking, in open air, from draught of air, in sun.
Night-blindness. Scrofulous inflammation. Opacity of cornea. Hot tears. Swellings of lids. Hollow eyes; blue circles.
Sounds echo in head. Nose ulcerative or cancerous smell (ozaena). Spasmodic movements of upper lip. Facial paralysis from cold air-crawling sensation-chronic eruption on forehead, nose, and round mouth. Swelling of lips.
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