Plasma cholesterol concentration and primary brain tumours.

Plasma cholesterol concentration and primary brain tumours.

Primary Brain Tumours

Introduction Primary CNS neoplasms represent 2% of all cancers and are the sixth most common group of tumours in adults and the second most common form of cancer in children, accounting for 20% of cancers in children under the age of 15 years. Although the incidence of tumours metastatic to the central nervous system outnumbers the combined incidence of tumours arising in the brain, spinal cord...

Effect of dietary cholesterol on plasma cholesterol concentration.

One hundred and sixty eight subjects participated in a randomised crossover study to determine whether halving or doubling the present dietary cholesterol intake from eggs had any influence on blood cholesterol concentration in people following current dietary recommendations. During the first eight weeks all participants were advised to follow a reduced fat diet (26% total energy for hyperlipi...

The treatment of primary malignant brain tumours.

Primary brain tumours following breast cancer

Background Primary brain tumours account for one of the top ten reasons for all cancer-related death. It has previously been shown that there is an increased risk of developing a primary brain tumour following a prior solid tumour in the case of bladder cancer, endometrial cancer, sarcoma and leukaemia. There is no data on whether there is an increased risk in developing primary CNS neoplasia f...