Malignant brain tumors can affect both children and adult. Indeed, they are quite common and comprise about 10 to 30% of all adult cancers.
There are many types of brain tumors, which are classified according to the affected tissue. They include:
* Glioma - glia or neuroglia, a tissue that surrounds and supports the neurons or nerve cells of the brain.
* Meningioma - meninges or membrane enclosing the brain and spinal cord
* Astrocytoma - astrocyte or star-shaped neuroglia cell.
* Medulloblastoma - cerebellum
* Ependymoma - ependyma or epithelial membrane lining the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord
* Brain stem glioma - portion of the brain that contains the medulla oblongata, pons Varolii, and midbrain. This portion of the brain connects the spinal cord to the brain.
The gliomas are scare me the most. Because of the very nature of glial cells. How fast they reproduce. How rapidly they spread.
Dolores had a glioma tumor, a butterfly lesion of the occipital lobe. Thank G-d some un-politically correct resident finally pulled my father aside and told him, "It's over, man. Give it up. Bring her home."
I wish all of her doctors would have been so merciful.
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Oct 5, 2008 6:50am
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