<p> Brain and Spinal Tumors: Hope Through Research</p><p>1) A _____ lobe tumor can cause changes in personality, intellect, reasoning, and behavior. parietal frontal occipital temporal</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>4) What is the most common symptom of a brain tumor? headaches seizures balance problems nausea and vomiting</p><p>5) Which type of diagnostic imaging studies blood flow to tissue? PET SPECT fMRI CT</p><p>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 </p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p> ce4less.com ce4less.com ce4less.com ce4less.com ce4less.com ce4less.com ce4less.com 9) Which are molecules or other substances in the blood or tissue that can be used to diagnose or monitor a particular disorder? tracers neural flags biomarkers relay signs</p><p>10) Which is an experimental treatment that uses fission to kill tumor cells? Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Liquid radiation therapy Radiosensitizer therapy microRNA therapy</p><p>11) About half of all CNS tumors are gangliogliomas astrocytomas ependymoma oligodendrogliomas</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p> ce4less.com ce4less.com ce4less.com ce4less.com ce4less.com ce4less.com ce4less.com</p>