Nervous Tissue - Cancer

Cancer

Tumors in nervous tissue include:

  • Gliomas (glial cell tumors)
Gliomatosis cerebri, Oligoastrocytoma, Choroid plexus papilloma, Ependymoma, Astrocytoma (Pilocytic astrocytoma, Glioblastoma multiforme), Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumour, Oligodendroglioma, Medulloblastoma, Primitive neuroectodermal tumor
  • Neuroepitheliomatous tumors
Ganglioneuroma, Neuroblastoma, Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor, Retinoblastoma, Esthesioneuroblastoma
  • Nerve sheath tumors
Neurofibroma (Neurofibrosarcoma, Neurofibromatosis), Schwannoma, Neurinoma, Acoustic neuroma, Neuroma

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Famous quotes containing the word cancer:

    “Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is the growth of madness denied.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “The same people who tell us that smoking doesn’t cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn’t cause smoking.”
    —Ellen Goodman (b. 1941)

    “We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.”
    —Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories (1986)