Flashcards: Brain tumor

Choroid plexus papilloma, also known as papilloma of choroid plexus, is a rare benign neuroepithelial intraventricular WHO grade I lesion found in the choroid plexus.

Oligodendrogliomas are a type of glioma that are believed to originate from the oligodendrocytes of the brain or from a glial precursor cell.

Medulloblastoma (/məˌdʌloʊblæˈstoʊmə/) is the most common type of pediatric malignant primary brain tumor (cancer), originating in the part of the brain that is towards the back and the bottom, on the floor of the skull, in the cerebellum or posterior fossa.

A glioma is a type of tumor that starts in the brain or spine.

Astrocytomas are a type of cancer of the brain.

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), also known as glioblastoma and grade IV astrocytoma, is the most common and most aggressive cancer that begins within the brain.

Gliomatosis cerebri (infiltrative diffuse astrocytosis) is a rare primary brain tumor.

Meningiomas are a diverse set of tumors arising from the meninges, the membranous layers surrounding the central nervous system.

Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common extracranial solid cancer in childhood and the most common cancer in infancy, with an incidence of about 650 cases per year in the U.

Ependymoma is a tumor that arises from the ependyma, a tissue of the central nervous system.

Anaplastic astrocytoma is a rare WHO grade III type of astrocytoma, which is a type of cancer of the brain.

Pineocytoma, also known as a pinealocytoma, is a benign, slowly growing tumor of the pineal gland.

Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA, SGCA, or SGCT) is a low-grade astrocytic brain tumor (astrocytoma) that arises within the ventricles of the brain.

A brain metastasis is a cancer that has metastasized (spread) to the brain from another location in the body.

Trilateral retinoblastoma (TRb) is a malignant midline primitive neuroectodermal tumor occurring in patients with inherited uni- or bilateral retinoblastoma.

A primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL), also known as microglioma and primary brain lymphoma, is a primary intracranial tumor appearing mostly in patients with severe immunosuppression (typically patients with AIDS).

The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA), founded in 1973, was the first and is now the only national nonprofit organization in the United States dedicated to providing support services and programs to brain tumor patients and their families, as well as the funding of brain tumor research.

Neurocytoma (or neuroepithelioma) is a type of nervous system tumor which is primarily derived from nervous tissue.

Meningeal carcinomatosis is a condition in which a solid tumor diffusely spreads to the leptomeninges.

Oligoastrocytomas are a subset of brain tumors that present with an appearance of mixed glial cell origin, astrocytoma and oligodendroglioma.

A subependymoma is a type of brain tumor; specifically, it is a rare form of ependymal tumor.

Pilocytic astrocytoma or juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma or cystic cerebellar astrocytoma (and its variant juvenile pilomyxoid astrocytoma) is a brain tumor that occurs more often in children and young adults (in the first 20 years of life).

Pineoblastoma (also pinealoblastoma) is a malignant tumor of the pineal gland.

Medulloepithelioma is a rare, primitive, fast-growing brain tumour thought to stem from cells of the embryonic medullary cavity.

Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumour, commonly abbreviated DNT or DNET, is a type of brain tumor.

A hemangiopericytoma (HPC) is a type of soft tissue sarcoma that originates in the pericytes in the walls of capillaries.

Central neurocytoma, abbreviated CNC, is an extremely rare, ordinarily benign intraventricular brain tumour that typically forms from the neuronal cells of the septum pellucidum.

A choroid plexus carcinoma is a type of choroid plexus tumor.

Gliosarcoma is a rare type of glioma, a cancer of the brain that comes from glial, or supportive, brain cells, as opposed to the neural brain cells.

The Save A Brain Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the goals of raising awareness of Glioblastoma Multiforme, the most common type of primary brain tumor, as well as raising money in hopes of finding a cure for this terminal disease.