Tumor
Classification
see World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System
see Collision tumor
see Pituitary Tumors ~ Neuroendocrine Disorders: Pituitary and hypothalamic disorders including acromegaly, Cushing's disease or syndrome, prolactinoma, chromophobe or nonfunctioning pituitary neuroendocrine tumor, and thyrotroph adenomas.
see:
The genetic landscape of tumors is continually evolving, which can be an impediment to the clinical management of cancer patients with recurrent disease 1) 2).
Intracranial tumor
Pathogenesis
Bacteria have been observed in the tumor environment for decades and have been demonstrated to play important roles in the pathogenesis and development of several different tumors.
1)
Gerlinger M, Swanton C. How Darwinian models inform therapeutic failure
initiated by clonal heterogeneity in cancer medicine. Br J Cancer. 2010 Oct
12;103(8):1139-43. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605912. Epub 2010 Sep 28. Review. PubMed
PMID: 20877357; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2967073.
2)
Greaves M, Maley CC. Clonal evolution in cancer. Nature. 2012 Jan 19;481:306.