Brain Tumor Treatment and Symptoms entities Brain Cancer; Brain Cancer (Brain Tumor); Brain Tumors; Cancer, Brain
A brain tumor is any intracranial tumor created by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either found in the brain itself (neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells), lymphatic tissue, blood vessels), in the cranial nerves (myelin-producing Schwann cells), in the brain envelopes (meninges), skull, pituitary and pineal gland, or spread from cancers primarily located in other organs (metastatic tumors). Primary (true) brain tumors are commonly located in ...
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Brain Tumor Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Cancer Information Service, NCI, NIH, HHS http://cis.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, HHS http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center http://www.cc.nih.gov/
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
Resources
- Adult Brain Tumors (PDQ®): Treatment (National Cancer Institute)
- Adult Brain TumorTreatment - Patients (National Cancer Institute)