There are numerous types of gliomas which are entitled based on the origin of the cell type including oligodendrogliomas, astrocytoma, ependymomas, and glioblastoma.
The 26-year-old from Shifnal went for an MRI scan at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital where they found a tennis-ball sized tumour and diagnosed her with a stage three cancer called anaplastic astrocytoma.
The 26-year-old, from Shifnal, went for an MRI scan at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital where they found a tennis ball-sized tumour and diagnosed her with a stage three cancer called anaplastic astrocytoma.
Her diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme, often referred to as grade IV astrocytoma, is one of less than 200 documented cases in the past 40 years in which the tumor is in her spine rather than the brain.
In a desperate bid to escape the agony, Craig took himself to A&E where a CT scan found him to have a grade 1 pilocytic astrocytoma, months after going to his GP for help with his headaches.
Daniel Bell, fromOrmskirk, was just three years old when he was diagnosed withpilocytic astrocytoma, one of the most common brain tumours diagnosed in the UK.
Among the 83 intracranial lesions, 29 were diagnosed as meningioma, 23 as astrocytoma, 2 as oligodendroglioma, while we had 6 cases of pituitary adenoma and 4 cases of metastatic deposits to the brain, 3 cases of schwannoma, and 2 cases each of medulloblastoma, lymphoma and inflammatory pathology, an abscess, and a tuberculoma.
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