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Low Grade Gliomas: A Review

04/06/2012 by Jeanne Young

Eva Perdahl, MD, PhD, Children’s National-VA and David Wolf, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University Brain tumors are the most common solid tumor of childhood. Among brain tumors, low-grade gliomas are the most common type, accounting for almost 50% of all tumor types. There are two major types of cells that make up the brain: neurons …

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Brain Stem Gliomas in Childhood

12/01/2011 by Jeanne Young

Paul Graham Fisher, M.D., M.H.S. and Michelle Monje, M.D., Ph.D Brain stem tumors are perhaps the most dreaded cancers in pediatric oncology, owing to their historically poor prognosis, yet they remain an area of intense research.  Brain stem tumors account for about 10 to 15% of childhood brain tumors.  Peak incidence for these tumors occurs …

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