Brain and Spinal Tumors: Hope Through Research

1) A _____ lobe tumor can cause changes in personality, intellect, reasoning, and behavior. parietal frontal occipital temporal

2) More than _____ persons in the United States are estimated to be living with a diagnosis of primary brain or central nervous system tumor. 59,000 159,000 259,000 359,000

3) Which grade of tumors grow slowly, sometimes into surrounding tissue, and can become a higher-grade tumor? Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV

4) What is the most common symptom of a brain tumor? headaches seizures balance problems nausea and vomiting

5) Which type of diagnostic imaging studies blood flow to tissue? PET SPECT fMRI CT

6) Which is a flexible plastic tube that is used to divert the flow of CSF from the central nervous system to another part of the body? culvert shunt bendy straw neural catheter

7) What uses radar-like technology to prepare and fire a single beam of high-energy x-rays into a tumor? 3D-CRT IMRT LINAC DOPLR

8) Neo-adjuvant therapy is used to counsel patients before surgery provide occupational therapy following surgery provide non-traditional treatments for cancer patients shrink the tumor before surgery

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10) Which is an experimental treatment that uses fission to kill tumor cells? Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Liquid radiation therapy Radiosensitizer therapy microRNA therapy

11) About half of all CNS tumors are gangliogliomas astrocytomas ependymoma oligodendrogliomas

12) Which is a rare congenital tumor which develops from remnants of the flexible spine-like structure that forms and dissolves early in fetal development? chordoma choroid plexus papilloma craniopharyngioma meningioma

13) Which are benign tumors which arise from the cells that form a protective sheath around the body's nerve fibers? vascular tumors arachnoid cysts pituitary tumors schwannomas

14) “False brain tumor” mimics brain tumor symptoms and may be caused by deoxygenated bloodflow to the brain heavy metal concentrations in the blood multiple seizures buildup of cerebrospinal fluid

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