Surviving childhood brain tumor still has a strong effect on the human body. Eliminating one risk does not mean that all risks are over but it invites one more risk. A new discovery has led the study on brain tumor more focused on an added risk for future for those patients, whoever had the problem of tumor of the brain in childhood.
According to Deccan Chronicle, the researchers of McMaster University have discovered that the childhood brain tumor survivors have an increased overall body fat. They have a Body Mass Index very similar to normal human being with no cancer but they have more fat tissue around the abdomen.
A brain tumor is the most common reason for death in children with cases of cancer. This is also the most common type of cancer reported in the children. But children who are survived by the cancer therapies after a diagnosis of these type of cancer problems are then threatened by life in terms of increased body fat.
The Indian Express reported that this increased body fat in these types of patients is very much prone to stroke, heart disease, type 2 diabetes or even an early death. Brain tumor survival leads to these comorbid health conditions which are not really good for health.
"These findings suggest that one of the most important risk factors for heart disease and Type 2 diabetes, which is excess total and central fat in the body, is present relatively early in survivors of childhood brain tumor," a senior author of the research paper published in Scientific Reports said. In short, surviving the disease of brain tumor is not enough for a future good healthy lifestyle.
Children with cured brain tumor should be further monitored to know the risk of the cardiovascular diseases and Type 2 diabetes. Some measures should be taken for better health quality, lifestyle, and prevention of these types of risks in future. The Canadian Study of Determinants of Endometabolic Health in Children (CanDECIDE Study), a part of McMaster Children's Hospital prepared the report.
