Primary brain tumors Flashcards
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Q
Cancer stats
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Around 50% of men and 38% of women develop cancer. Less than 2 % are primary
2
Q
Primary brain tumors
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Tumors that originate from the CNS. Patients who have tumors somewhere else but it metastates to brain is in about 20%.
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Q
Cogntitive decline
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Primary tumors have less, patients nowadays live longer but have heavy cog decline
4
Q
Types of brain tumors
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Malignant: Cancerous (glioblastoma is most seen and most aggressive)
Nonmalignant: Noncancerous, (most seen is meningioma, different from cancer)
5
Q
Glioma
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High grade glioma: low life expectancy, about 1100 seen py
Lower grade glioma, =about 5 year expect. Nowadays we look at different genes instead of low/high
6
Q
Most favorable place
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Frontal/temporal lobe
