PRIMARY BRAIN TUMOURS - develop from brain cells.

Benign tumours-remain in the part of the brain in

which they started and do not spread into and destroy
other areas of the brain. They do not spread to other
parts of the body.
Malignant primary brain tumours-are most likely to
cause problems by spreading into the normal brain
tissue which surrounds them and causing pressure and
damage to the surrounding areas of the brain. These
tumours rarely spread outside the brain to other parts of
the body.

SECONDARY BRAIN TUMOURS-occur when cancer

cells from other parts of the body, such as the lung or
breast, spread to the brain.

RISK FACTORS

 Adults age 40-70 and children age 3-12.

 Males have higher overall risk of brain tumors, Side view of the head Parts of the brain
but women are more prone to meningiomas,
the most common brain tumors.
 Radiation treatment for leukemia.
 Epilepsy
 History of cancer of breast or lung.
 A parent with cancer of the nervous system,
colon or salivary glands.
 Rare inherited disorders such as
neurofibromatos, von hippel-Lindau syndrome
and Turcot’s syndrome.

TYPES OF BRAIN TUMOUR

 Acoustic neuroma
 Astrocytic tumours
 CNS lymphoma
 Ependymoma
 Haemangioblastoma
 Medulloblastoma
 Meningioma
 Mixed gliomas
 Oligodendroglioma