Medical Reference Related to Brain Cancer

81. More Information
    

    ABOUT PDQ PDQ® - NCI's Comprehensive Cancer Database. Full description of the NCI PDQ database. ADDITIONAL PDQ SUMMARIES PDQ® Cancer Information Summaries: Adult Treatment Treatment options for adult cancers. PDQ® Cancer Information Summaries: Pediatric Treatment Treatment options for childhood cancers. PDQ® Cancer Information Summaries: Supportive Care Side effects of cancer treatment,...

82. Recurrent Childhood Craniopharyngioma
    

    Recurrentcraniopharyngioma is a tumor that has recurred (come back) after it has been treated. The tumor may come back in the same area of the brain where it was first found. ...

83. Get More Information From NCI
    

    CALL 1-800-4-CANCER For more information,U.S. residents may call the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Cancer Information Service toll-free at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237) Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A trained Cancer Information Specialist is available to answer your questions. CHAT ONLINE The NCI's LiveHelp® online chat service provides Internet users with the ...

84. Brain Stem Gliomas
    

    Brain stem gliomas have relatively poor prognoses that correlate with histology (when biopsies are performed),location,and extent of tumor. The overall median survival time of patients in studies has been 44 to 74 weeks.[ 1,2,3,4,5 ] The best results have been attained with hyperfractionated radiation therapy.[ 5 ] STANDARD TREATMENT OPTIONS: Radiation therapy.[ 1,2,3,4,5,6 ] ...

85. General Information About Liver (Hepatocellular) Cancer
    

    Liver cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the liver.

86. Treatment Option Overview
    

    Many of the improvements in survival in childhood cancer have been made as a result of clinical trials that have attempted to improve on the best accepted therapy available. Clinical trials in pediatrics are designed to compare new therapy with therapy that is currently accepted as standard. This comparison may be done in a randomized study of two treatment arms or by evaluating a single new ...

87. Treatment Option Overview
    

    The goals of treatment of pituitary adenomas include normalization of hormonal secretion (i.e.,normalization of hypersecretion and improvement in hypofunction) and resolution or cessation of the progression of neurological defects. Interventions may include surgery,medical therapy,radiation therapy,or a combination of these modalities. The treatment of choice must be individualized and is ...

88. Oligodendroglial Tumors
    

    Oligodendroglial Oligodendrogliomas (World Health Organization grade II) behave much like diffuse astrocytomas. (Refer to the Oligodendroglial tumors section in the classification section of this summary for more information.) STANDARD TREATMENT OPTIONS: Surgery plus radiation therapy; however,some controversy exists concerning the timing of radiation therapy. A study of 300 patients who had ...

89. About PDQ
    

    PDQ IS A COMPREHENSIVE CANCER DATABASE AVAILABLE ON NCI'S WEB SITE. PDQ is the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) comprehensive cancer information database. Most of the information contained in PDQ is available online at NCI's Web site. PDQ is provided as a service of the NCI. The NCI is part of the National Institutes of Health,the federal government's focal point for biomedical research. .

90. Pilocytic Astrocytomas
    

    This astrocytic tumor is classified as a World Health Organization grade I tumor and is often curable.[ 1 ] (Refer to the Pilocytic astrocytoma section in the classification section of this summary for more information.) STANDARD TREATMENT OPTIONS: Surgery alone if the tumor is totally resectable. Surgery followed by radiation therapy to known or suspected residual tumor.[ 2 ] TREATMENT OPTIONS .