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Primary tumors Tumors occurring in the brain include: •Astrocytoma •Pilocytic astrocytoma •Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor •Oligodendrogliomas •Ependymoma •Glioblastoma multiforme •Mixed gliomas •Oligoastrocytomas •Medulloblastoma •Retinoblastoma •Neuroblastoma •Germinoma •Teratoma
Secondary tumors and non-tumor lesions Secondary or metastatic brain tumors originate from malignant tumors (cancers) located primarily in other organs •Lung cancer
- Skin cancer
•Malignant melanoma •Hypernephroma •Breast cancer •Colon carcinoma
WHO* classification of primary brain tumors according to histology and grade (uptodate)
Astrocytic tumors
- Pilocytic astrocytoma
- Diffuse astrocytoma
- Anaplastic astrocytoma
- Glioblastoma
Oligodendroglial and oligoastrocytic tumors
- Oligodendroglioma
- Anaplastic oligodendroglioma
- Oligoastrocytoma
- Anaplastic oligoastrocytoma
- Glioblastoma with oligodendroglioma component
Ependymal tumors
- Subependymoma
- Myxopapillary ependymoma
- Ependymoma
- Anaplastic ependymoma
Choroid plexus tumors
Choroid plexus papilloma Choroid plexus carcinoma
Neuronal and mixed neuronal-glial tumors
- Ganglioglioma
- Central neurocytoma
- Filum terminale paraganglioma
- Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (DNET)
Pineal parenchymal tumors
- Pineocytoma
- Pineoblastoma
Embryonal tumors
- Medulloblastoma
- Supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET)
- Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor