Web Resources
Types of Tumors
People Living with Cancer, An ASCO Website: List of Cancer
Types:
People Living With Cancer provides oncologist-approved
cancer information, including PLWC Guides to understanding 50 different types
of cancer. In this section, you will also find information on clinical trials,
support services, cancer news, and other resources such as ASCO abstracts,
patient care guides, and expert chat transcripts. ASCO believes that all
treatment decisions should be made between patients and their doctors.
Link to PLWC
Brain Cancer:
PLWC Brain Cancer Link
Acoustic Neuroma:
http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/5189.html
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/AcousticNeuroma
Astrocytomas:
http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/5298.html
http://www.emedicine.com/NEURO/topic190.htm
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/Astrocytoma
Arteriovenous Malformations
http://www.emedicine.com/NEURO/topic21.htm
Benign and Malignant Brain Tumors: (NCI):
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/brain/page4
Brainstem Gliomas
http://www.emedicine.com/NEURO/topic40.htm
CNS Lymphoma:
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/CNSlymphoma
Craniopharyngiomas:
http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/5307.html
Chordomas: Cedars-Sinai Hospital:
http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/5299.html
Ependymoma:
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/Ependymoma
Haemangioblastoma:
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/Haemangioblastoma
Glioblastoma multiforme (GMB)
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2692.htm
http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/5305.html
Gliomas:
http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/5303.html
Meningiomas: Cedars-Sinai Hospital:
http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/5301.html
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/Meningioma
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/neurosurgery/meningioma/meningiomafacts.asp
Medulloblastoma:
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/Medulloblastoma
Mixed gliomas:
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/Mixedgliomas
Oligodendroglioma
http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic281.htm
http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/5300.html
http://www.thedoctorsdoctor.com:16080/diseases/oligodendroglioma.htm
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/Oligodendroglioma
OncoLink:
Types of Adult Brain Tumors:
http://www.oncolink.com/types/article.cfm?c=2&s=4&ss=32&id=9203
Pineal Tumors:
http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/5306.html
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/Pinealregiontumours
Primary Tumors: (NCI): astrocytoma, brain stem glioma, ependymoma, Oligodendroglioma, medulloblastoma, schwannoma, craniopharyngioma, germ cell tumor, pineal region tumor:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/brain/page6
Pituitary adenomas Index (Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Neurosurgery)
http://www.bgsm.edu/bgsm/surg-sci/ns/pituitary.html
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/Pituitarytumours
Polomyxoid Astrocytoma: PMA: Columbian University Resource:
http://www.pilomyxoid.com/
Schwannomas:
http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/5247.html
http://www.emedicine.com/radio/topic7.htm
Cerebral
Gliomas: article by Lucia Zamorano,MD,Dr. med Professor of
Neurological Surgery and Radiation Oncology,
Wayne State University, Detroit ,MI
http://www.unsaonline.com/understanding/gliomaframeset.htm
