Brain Tumors
Tumors of the Nervous System are categorized as follows:
- Central Nervous System (CNS)
- Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
- Benign (non-cancerous)
- Malignant (cancerous)
- Primary (arising from nerve cells known as Neurons, or their supporting cells known as Glial and Schwann cells.) See World Health Organization Classification of all types.)
- Metastatic (arising from cells outside of the Nervous System
The following websites contain enormous literature and references for brain tumors.
- American Brain Tumor Society
- Brain Tumor Virtual Trial (Join the Study!)
- South Florida Brain Tumor Association
- Radiation Therapy Services
- Clinical Trials and Noteworthy Treatments for Brain Tumors
- The Brain Tumor Society
- B-Class Brain Tumor Data Library by Masaharu Amagasa (Most extensive listing of Brain tumors by each specific type)
- Brain Tumor Research Center (BTRC) University of California, San Francisco
- Metastatic tumors of the brain
- NYU Medical Center Department of Neurological Surgery