Tumors of the spine: causes, symptoms, treatment

Tumors that are formed in the region of the spinal column, can lead to disability. Therefore, medical education must be discovered and addressed as soon as possible. Usually tumor find quite by accident. The main symptom of malignant and benign tumors pain. Pain in the back of the characteristic and other diseases of the spine. So, to confirm or refute doubts, you will need to conduct a thorough diagnosis.

If the tumor grows, the list of symptoms extends to loss of sensitivity of extremities and paralysis.

Malignant tumors grow very quickly, but benign increase in size slowly, year after year, becoming huge.

Why do malignant tumors occur, medicine is not yet know. There are a number of assumptions about the influence of heredity, polluted environment and bad habits. But it is rather additional factors. The root cause of the tumors is not established.

First, in the tissues of the spine appear the cancer cells, forming a primary tumor, which gradually expands, letting metastasized into the surrounding tissue. The vertebrae and intervertebral discs collapse under the influence metastasis. The process is accompanied by the pinching of nerves and spinal cord.

Benign tumors do not produce metastasis, are formed locally, not to endanger the health and quite easily treated by simple surgery.