Brain Cancer: Head injury can take the form of brain cancer. This has been revealed in research. A head injury sometimes turns into a brain tumour. Which is called glioma. News has been published in a magazine named Current Biology, in which it has been told that the risk of brain cancer is four times more in such people, who had a head injury. That's why head injuries should never be ignored and should go to the doctor in time. Let's know what this research says.
Head injury can become cancer
Research suggests that mutations in certain genes correlate with inflammation of the brain, which occurs after injury. As age increases, along with the natural process, the risk of cancer also increases. Researchers at University College London (UCL) said that the risk of brain cancer is less than 1 percent. Even after getting hurt, its risk is slight.
Injury causes brain cancer
Professor Simona Parinello of UCL's Cancer Institute told that, in the research done by him, it has been found that head injury can become brain cancer. There are many mutations in the tissues, which do not have any major effect, but if there is a head injury after the mutation, then it can have a serious effect.
More than 20,000 people involved in research
According to what was found in this research, genetic mutations working together with inflammation of brain tissues change the behaviour of cells, which increases the risk of cancer. After testing on rats, it was confirmed in humans. In this research, electronic medical records of more than 20,000 people were examined, who had suffered a head injury at one time or another.
Risk increases with age
Research suggests that basal inflammation is less in a young brain. This is the reason that even after severe brain injury, the mutation remains in a range, but as the age increases, inflammation increases in the whole brain. It is more in the place of injury. If it reaches a certain limit, a mutation called Perinello begins to appear. Glioma is a brain tumour that originates in stem cells.
