Brain Tumors and Cancer

Childhood Cerebellar Astrocytoma: Treatment Options
by National Cancer Institute
Different types of treatment are available for children with cerebellar astrocytoma. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in clinical trials.

Adult Brain Tumors: Treatment Option Overview
by National Cancer Institute
Different types of treatment are available for patients with adult brain tumor. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in clinical trials. Before starting treatment, patients may want to think about taking

Cell Phones and Brain Cancer: Radiation Without Risk?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Is there really cause for concern? Do steps need to be taken, as Milham told Larry King, to avoid a brain cancer epidemic among the millions of cell phone users in this country and around the world?

Childhood Visual Pathway and Hypothalamic Glioma
by National Cancer Institute
Childhood visual pathway glioma is a type of brain tumor in which cancer (malignant) cells begin to grow in the tissues of the brain. The brain controls memory and learning, the senses (hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch), and emotion.

Childhood Medulloblastoma
by National Cancer Institute
Childhood medulloblastoma is a disease in which benign (noncancer) or malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the brain. About 1 out of 5 childhood brain tumors are medulloblastomas.

Childhood Brain Tumors
by National Cancer Institute
Childhood brain tumors are a diverse group of diseases characterized by the abnormal growth of tissue contained within the skull. Brain tumors can be benign (without cancer cells) or malignant (contains cancer cells).

Cell Phones and Brain Cancer : Fear Factor
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The new studies may bolster current scientific knowledge, but they will never be able to prove cell phones to be absolutely safe. Proving that cell phones don't cause cancer presents the insurmountable scientific obstacle of trying to prove a negative

Cell Phones and Brain Cancer : Studies in Perspective
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Some mobile phone users have been diagnosed with brain cancer, and many others who have not used mobile phones have gotten the disease, too. Each year in the United States, brain cancer occurs at a rate of about six new cases per 100,000 people.

Childhood Brain Tumors, Part 2
by National Cancer Institute
Germ cell tumors arise from the sex cells found in the brain. There are different types of germ cell tumors, including germinomas, embryonal cell carcinomas, choriocarcinomas, and teratomas.