Intracranial Tumours

Radiotherapy techniques for intracranial tumours

ABSTRACTIntracranial tumours often require radiotherapeutic approaches that differ from other sites. Their specific requirements merit a specialized discussion. A brief review of radiotherapy techniques to treat intracranial tumours is presented with emphasis on the author’s own experience and work, where appropriate. A clinical introduction is presented first followed by a description of bot...

Intracranial Tumours

Early Diagnosis of Intracranial Tumours *

CONSIDERABLE variation is to be found in the reported incidence of mental symptoms in cerebral tumours, dependent, in large measure, on the interpretation of the symptoms presented. That cerebral tumour is not a common cause of any of the recognized forms of mental disorder treated under certificate is apparent from the statistics of mental hospitals. Nevertheless, abnormal mental phenomena may...

Remote metastases from intracranial tumours.

A review of the primary tumours of the nervous system encountered over the past 16 years from the population of the west of Scotland uncovered only three tumours in which remote extracranial metastases had developed. In all three, there had been surgical intervention before the appearance of metastases. The findings in these patients are compared with those in other published accounts of this u...

Radiotherapy techniques for intracranial tumours

The central nervous system (CNS) consists of the brain and the spinal cord. CNS tumours are relatively rare (<2% of all cancers and cancer deaths). Their incidence with age has two peaks, one in childhood (5-9 years) and the other >50 years where it increases with age. They can be malignant or benign. Even benign tumours can be critical due to their location in brain tissue (e.g., compressing t...