{"id":78,"date":"2002-09-29T02:38:03","date_gmt":"2002-09-29T07:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/neurovista\/2002\/09\/29\/abta-primer-astrocytoma\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T21:32:04","slug":"abta-primer-astrocytoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/neurovista\/2002\/09\/29\/abta-primer-astrocytoma\/","title":{"rendered":"ABTA Primer-Astrocytoma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Astrocytomas are tumors that arise from astrocytes \u2013 cells that make up the \u201cglue-like\u201d or supportive\u00a0 tissue of the brain. These cells are named for their star\u2011like shape. About 60% of all primary brain tumors are astrocytomas. These tumors are \u201cgraded\u201d by the pathologist to indicate how normal, or how abnormal, the cells of the tumor look. Grade I astrocytomas have slightly unusual looking cells; the cells of a grade IV astrocytoma are very abnormal in appearance. The astrocytoma section below describes the various grades of these tumors. The list begins with grade I tumors and progresses through grade IV astrocytomas.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, terms describing the location or the appearance of an astrocytoma may be attached to it\u2019s name. For example, a butterfly glioma is a high grade astrocytoma that has spread through both sides of the brain, causing a “butterfly” appearance on scans. A cerebellar astrocytoma is an astrocytoma found in the cerebellum of the brain.”<\/p>\n

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ABTA primer excerpt\u00a0 Copyright ABTA \u00a0 “ASTROCYTOMA \u00a0 Astrocytomas are tumors that arise from astrocytes \u2013 cells that make up the \u201cglue-like\u201d or supportive\u00a0 tissue of the brain. These cells are named for their star\u2011like shape. About 60% of all primary brain tumors are astrocytomas. These tumors are \u201cgraded\u201d by the pathologist to indicate how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/neurovista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/neurovista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/neurovista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/neurovista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/neurovista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/neurovista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/neurovista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/neurovista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/neurovista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}