Harnessing brain development to understand brain tumours

The Blood-Brain Barrier in Brain Tumours

“Malignant Brain Tumours.”

This book attempts and to a great extent achieves, its apparent object to review brain tumours in a comprehensive manner. It is a series of chapters by appropriate experts ranging in subject from molecular genetics, through clinical presentation, investigations to the various forms of management. It is up-to-date. The book's editors are well known and credible-a neurosurgeon and a neuropatholog...

Paediatric brain tumours.

Brain tumours constitute the most frequent solid tumour in childhood. At approximately 20% of paediatric malignant disease they remain uncommon with incidence of 2-3 per 100,000. Glial tumours represent over half of brain tumours in children, although in comparison with adult gliomas, where high grade tumours predominate, low grade tumours are more frequent. These characteristically include cys...

Brain Tumours in Children

Brain and central nervous system (CNS) tumours (malignant and non-malignant) are the second most common group of cancers in children, accounting for a quarter of all childhood cancers. In the UK, brain tumours occur in about 5 per 100,000 of children between the ages of 0-9 years. The largest subgroup is astrocytoma (43% of all brain and CNS tumours in children). Astrocytomas are diagnosed thro...

Primary Brain Tumours

Introduction Primary CNS neoplasms represent 2% of all cancers and are the sixth most common group of tumours in adults and the second most common form of cancer in children, accounting for 20% of cancers in children under the age of 15 years. Although the incidence of tumours metastatic to the central nervous system outnumbers the combined incidence of tumours arising in the brain, spinal cord...