ependymoma

Different types of treatment are available for children with ependymoma.

For ependymoma, delays beyond 10 to 15 years have been reported.

The following symptoms and others may be caused by childhood ependymoma.

The information from tests and procedures done to detect (find) childhood ependymoma is used to plan cancer treatment.

Childhood ependymoma commonly recurs, usually at the original cancer site.

The subtype of ependymoma can also be narrowed down by molecular means.

There is no standard staging system for childhood ependymoma.

Damage to the brain in young children treated for ependymoma is not always due to the effects of radiation therapy.

Newly diagnosed childhood ependymoma is a tumor that has not been treated.

It should be remembered that these symptoms also are prevalent in many other illnesses not associated with ependymoma.

The common location of intracranial ependymoma is the fourth ventricle.

The type of ependymoma and whether it begins in the brain or in the spinal cord.

Treatment for childhood ependymoma has included surgery followed by standard fractionated radiation therapy.

This classification scheme further designates four subtypes within the ependymoma group.

However, there are several recognized subtypes of ependymoma with differing pathologies.

Two years later, he was diagnosed with an ependymoma, a tumor that arises from the ependyma.

Tests that examine the brain and spinal cord are used to detect (find) childhood ependymoma.

Childhood ependymoma is diagnosed and removed in surgery.

Some of the tests used to detect childhood ependymoma are repeated after the tumor is removed by surgery.

Children with ependymoma should have their treatment planned by a team of health care providers who are experts in treating childhood brain tumors.

Ependymoma is a tumor that arises from the ependyma, a tissue of the central nervous system.

Initial treatment for newly diagnosed childhood ependymoma is usually surgery, with or without additional treatment.

Ependymoma is a tumor of the ependymal cells most commonly found in 4th ventricle.

Syringomyelia can be caused by an ependymoma.

Genetic alterations are fairly heterogeneous among histologically similar ependymoma tumors.