Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Podcasts
Neurosurgeon Jon Weingart talks about 'low grade' brain tumors and their treatment at Johns Hopkins
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Program Notes:
0:10 Low grade gliomas or low grade astrocytoma
1:01 Picked up inadvertently
2:03 With cancer in general we don’t use benign or malignant
2:47 Surgery really can affect when or if the tumor will come back
3:29 Need special equipment to get to the edge of the tumor
4:19 Biopsies of this tumor viable brain cells inside
5:08 It’s difficult for someone to say, yes, I’ll have surgery
6:09 Especially if it’s located near certain areas
7:01 Be back to work in a couple of weeks
8:00 Tends to be a disease under the age of 40
9:47 End
