MEDRADSC 2T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Neurofibromatosis, Oncology, P53
27 Jun 2016
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Example of a pediatric brain tumor case. For children 1-14 years old cns cancers are one of the most common. Cns tumors are the most common pediatric solid tumor3. There are many different types of brain cancers, and all of them will have slightly different etiological factors, listed below is a few of the most common ones; In these pediatric cases, the brain will still be growing and developing. Physiology1 (which is important to note during treatment)4. Cns in children reaches morphological maturity at age 22. The brain develops motor and sensory coordination during the first several years of childhood and intellectual capacities until adolescence 2 (cns)1. Primary brain tumours rarely spread outside the central nervous system spinal cord1. They can invade nearby tissues or spread to other areas in the brain and. They spread around the cns through the cerebrospinal fluid1. Medulloblastomas are the only tumours that might spread outside the.
