Brain Tumors

Brain Tumors
Brain Tumors in Children
Brain tumors are the most common solid tumors in children.

Brain Tumors
What is a brain tumor?
Brain tumors are the most common solid tumors in children. Approximately 2,200 children and adolescents in the US are diagnosed with primary brain tumors each year.

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What is a brain tumor?
A brain tumor is an abnormal growth of tissue in the brain. The tumor can either originate in the brain itself, or come from another part of the body and travel to the brain (metastasize).

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Primary Brain Tumors
Primary brain tumors are tumors that start in the brain. There are many types and subtypes of primary brain tumors. They include gliomas, meningomas, medullablastomas, pituitary adenomas, and central nervous system lymphomas.

Brain tumors occur in all age groups. Therefore, we all carry some risk for developing a tumor at any age.

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Adult Brain Tumors Treatment
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This PDQ cancer information summary for health professionals provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about the treatment of adult brain tumors.

Brain tumors can be challenging to treat. In fact, brain tumors are the second leading cause of cancer death in children under age 15. But the outlook isn't necessarily bleak.

Brain tumors need to be detected when they are small and still susceptible to treatment. Symptoms hinge on the size of the tumor and where in the brain it's located.

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Posterior fossa tumor is a type of brain tumor located in or near the bottom of the skull.

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Brain tumors. A tumor is a swelling caused by overgrown tissue. A tumor in the brain may grow slowly and produce few symptoms until it becomes large. Or a tumor can grow and spread rapidly, causing severe and quickly worsening symptoms.

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What is a brain tumor?
A brain tumor is an abnormal mass of tissue in which the cells grow and multiply without restraint, apparently unregulated by the mechanisms that control normal cells.

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Primary Brain Tumors
These are tumors that originate in brain tissue.

Brain tumors are either primary (start in the brain itself) or from metastatic disease -- i.e., spread to the brain from a different area of the body.

Brain tumors can be extremely serious and are caused by a wide range of conditions which can very easily be life-threatening if the proper treatment is not utilized right away.

Brain tumors typically are categorized as either primary or secondary. Primary brain tumors originate in your brain and can be noncancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant).

Brain tumors are classified depending on the exact site of the tumor, the type of tissue involved, and whether or not it is cancerous. Brain tumors can directly destroy brain cells.

Brain tumors invade, infiltrate, and replace normal CNS tissue in the brain and, as a result, produce neurological symptoms. Even a small tumor can damage neural pathways in the brain.

Brain tumors can occur in both children and adults; however, treatment for children may be different than treatment for adults. See the PDQ treatment summary on Adult Brain Tumors for more information.

Brain tumors can directly destroy brain cells, or they may indirectly damage cells by producing inflammation, compressing other parts of the brain as the tumor grows, inducing brain swelling, and causing increased pressure within the skull.

Brain tumors are the second most common malignancy among children less than 20 years of age. Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor, comprising 14.5% of newly diagnosed cases.

Brain tumors are masses of cells that grow within the brain. Slow-growing cells may form a benign, or noncancerous, tumor. Abnormal cells that grow rapidly may form a cancerous tumor.
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Brain tumors that result from this transformation and abnormal growth of brain cells are called primary brain tumors because they originate in the brain.

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A brain tumor is an abnormal growth of tissue in the brain. The tumor can either originate in the brain itself or come from another part of the body and travel to the brain.
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Most brain tumors that grow back are within 2 cm (one inch) of the original tumor location. As a result, radiation is usually delivered to the "involved field" (the original area of the tumor plus a small margin) rather than the whole brain.

Most brain tumors are not diagnosed until symptoms appear. The neuro-oncologist (a doctor who specializes in the effects of abnormal tissue in the central nervous system) can use the patient's symptoms as clues to the location of the tumor.

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Primary brain tumors occur in the brain such as include the skull, brain membranes, cranial nerves, pituitary gland or pineal gland. The remaining brain tumors are secondary and it is also known as metastatic.

Primary brain tumors-which originate in the brain-form when the DNA in brain cells mutates, and these cells reproduce unchecked. Abnormal cells begin to accumulate, and form a tumor within brain tissue.

Cancerous brain tumors are always serious because, as they grow, they press on or destroy healthy brain tissue.
How does it occur?
The cause of primary brain cancer is not known.

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Secondary brain tumors: Secondary or metastatic brain tumors are made of cancerous cells from a tumor elsewhere in the body. The cells spread to the brain from another tumor in a process called metastasis.

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Unlike other tumors, brain tumors spread by local extension and rarely metastasize (spread) outside the brain. A benign brain tumor is composed of non-cancerous cells and does not metastasize beyond the part of the brain where it originates.

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Next to leukemia and lymphoma, brain tumors are the most common type of cancer in children. Ependymomas account for about 10% of childhood brain tumors. About 60% of intracranial ependymomas in children are diagnosed by age 5.

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