Swimming coach Xu Guoyi died of a malignant tumor of the brain! This tumor multiplies quickly and will recur 100 percent

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Wang Jin is the vice president and chief physician of the Department of Neurosurgery at Tsinghua Changgeng Hospital in Beijing

Specialty: Comprehensive treatment of various brain and spinal cord spinal lesions, brain tumors, gliomas, etc., good at performing tumor stereotactic surgery biopsy, minimally invasive damage surgery, deep brain electrodes (Barkingson's disease, tremor, dystonia disease, epilepsy, pain, Tourette's syndrome, depression)

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The swimming world has lost a good player! In the early morning of July 19, Xu Guoyi, a meritorious coach who has made outstanding contributions to the Chinese swimming team and even the Chinese swimming cause, and has trained Ye Shiwen, Xu Jiayu and many other Olympic champions and world champions, died of malignant tumors in the brain at the age of 50.

Some media previously reported that at the end of 2015, 45-year-old Coach Xu Guoyi was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in the brain, and the pathology reached level IV.

"Gliomas are generally classified as four levels according to pathological examination." Wang Jin, chief physician of the Department of Neurosurgery at Beijing Tsinghua Changgeng Hospital, told the Health Times reporter that among all brain tumors, the highest incidence, the most complex treatment and the difficulty of curing are gliomas, with an annual incidence of 5/100,000 to 8/100,000. Gliomas include astrocytomas (WHO grade II./III.), oligodendrocyte tumors (WHO grade II./III.), glioblastoma (WHO class IV.), and childhood-associated diffuse gliomas. It is clinically customary to refer to World Health Organization (WHO) grade II gliomas as low-grade gliomas and WHO class III./IV as high-grade gliomas. 

Director Wang Jin introduced: "Brain tumors are not like breast cancer, lung cancer will metastasize to other parts of the body, but because brain tumors and normal brain tissue have no boundary, so it grows very fast, multiplies very quickly, patients will soon have headaches, epilepsy and other symptoms, and the situation of cerebral edema is also very severe!" The most serious gliomas are grade IV glioblastomas. Low-grade gliomas (gradeS, II) grow slowly and patients often survive. ”

High-grade gliomas are not curable, and the higher the level and malignancy of the tumor, the shorter the survival period. U.S. Senator Macken's in Arizona, as well as President Kennedy's brother, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, died of a glioma, both of whom underwent surgery and painful radiotherapy and chemotherapy after being found to be a malignant brain tumor- glioblastoma, and died after a tenacious struggle for about a year. Glioma, the most common primary tumor in the skull, has also attracted public attention again.

"The survival of glioma patients is related to the patient's age, the patient's functional status, tumor size, pathological grade, surgical situation, etc., and the average survival time of glioblastoma patients is generally about 12-13 months." The older the patient, the worse the preoperative state, and the worse the patient's prognosis, Director Wang Jin said.

At present, the treatment of brain tumors is mainly through surgical removal, auxiliary to radiation therapy and chemotherapy treatment, "generally is the first partial removal of the tumor, if the tumor in the brain is too deep or located in an important functional area, surgical resection may cause hemiplegia, aphasia and other serious consequences, at this time can consider doing a biopsy to confirm the diagnosis, and then radiation therapy, chemotherapy." However, the drugs for chemotherapy for gliomas are much less than those for breast and lung cancers. Because gliomas infiltrate into the surrounding brain tissue, gliomas will recur 100% after surgery, and treatment after glioma recurrence is still a medical problem. ”

Therefore, Director Wang Jin reminded patients that with headaches, new epilepsy, sensory or motor dysfunction and other symptoms on the side of the body, they must not "resist hard"! "After the tumor grows to a large size, it will be difficult to deal with, and it must be diagnosed and treated early." (Health Times reporter Mao Yuanyuan)