Brain Cancer
Medically Reviewed by: Dr. Bautista
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Updated on: November 16, 2019
Primary brain cancer develops in cells within the brain. Primary brain tumors are classified by the type of cell or tissue the tumor affects, and the location and grade of the tumor. Tumor cells may travel short distances within the brain, but generally won’t travel outside of the brain itself.
When cancer develops elsewhere in the body and spreads (metastasizes) to the brain, it is called a secondary brain tumor, or metastatic brain cancer. Metastatic brain tumors are more common than primary brain tumors. Cancers that commonly spread to the brain include lung cancer, colon cancer, kidney cancer, and breast cancer.
Brain cancer types include:
- Anaplastic astrocytoma
- Astrocytoma
- Brain stem glioma
- Brain tumor
- Craniopharyngioma
- Diffuse astrocytoma
- Ependymoma
- Germ cell tumor
- Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)
- Glioma
- Low-grade astrocytoma
- Medulloblastoma
- Meningioma
- Mixed gliomas
- Oligodendroglioma
- Peripheral nerve cancer
- Pilocytic astrocytoma
- Pineal region tumor
- Pituitary gland cancer
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