01:830:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Vascular Dementia, Astrocytoma
24 Jun 2016
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Local (brain origin- both infiltrative and non infiltrative) Metastasized are secondary because they show up somewhere else. Local tumors arise from any local cells residing in affected organ. Technically not brain tumor because meninges are not brain cells. Astrocytomas: common type of glioma, happens in adults in adults over 40, fairly infiltrative. You get this diagnosis and you will not see a long life span. Within the year is the type of prognosis you will get. Even with the best care, only about 2. 5 years are added. Gbm is a very bad disease to acquire, probably the worst of the brain tumors. What can also go bad: depends on the cell. Early age one: fairly young age cancer: child brain tumors. They are usually very benign and slow growing. Oligodendriomas: 5% of the total brain tumors, fairly slow growing. These two can form one and form a joint tumor.
