Astrocytoma natural history
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Overview
Natural History
Complications
Prognosis
- For low grade astrocytomas, removal of the tumor will generally allow functional survival for many years.
- In some reports, the five-year survival has been over 90% with well resected tumors.
- To date, complete resection of high grade astrocytomas is impossible because of the diffuse infiltration of tumor cells into normal parenchyma. Thus, high grade astrocytomas inevitably recur after initial surgery or therapy, and are usually treated similarly as the initial tumor.