Re: Brain Tumor

From: J (score_at_anon.anon)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:24:50 -0500

Deja Powell wrote:

> Does anyone know anything about the rare form of tumor called a
> medulloblastoma? It is not rare in children but by 42 year old dad was
> just diagnosed with it. If anyone has information or statistics on
> adult medulloblastoma I would appreciate it. (Links would be nice as
> well)

Hello Deja,
I'm sorry to hear about your father's diagnosis.
I only know what I've just been reading.
http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic624.htm
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Typesofbraintumour/Medulloblastoma

<http://www.stjude.org/disease-summaries/0,2557,449_2160_2981,00.html>

I'm not sure that statistics would be helpful at this time.
Perhaps much depends on the degree of spread and whether it's cancerous or
not and what treatment is proposed and the outcome of that.

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J