Pilocytic astrocytoma is a rare brain or spinal cord tumor that grows slowly. Learn about its causes, symptoms, types, and available treatment options.

A new study published this week in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics finds that operative plans for removing juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma, or JPA, tumors in the thalamus of the brain can ...

Then, she was diagnosed with cancer. Cassie was diagnosed with Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma, a brain tumor that affected an estimated 1,118 children in the U.S. last year.

A new study finds that operative plans for removing juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma, or JPA, tumors in the thalamus of the brain can be augmented with Diffusion Tensor Imaging, or DTI. The ...

Two-year-old Cassie was diagnosed with Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma, a brain tumor that needs weekly chemotherapy treatment.

Their world stopped when the MRI showed a mass in Mia’s brain. After a biopsy, Mia was diagnosed with a juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma, a type of brain tumor. “It was pretty rough.

Gliomas are a genetically, biologically, and clinically heterogenous group of primary brain tumors of neural/glial progenitor cell derivation that affect patients of all ages. 1 The clinical behavior ...

Hailie was diagnosed with a juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma (JPA), a rare childhood brain tumor, the accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain that can cause enlargement of the head ...

It was diagnosed as a juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma, a slow-growing benign tumor that arises in children and adolescents. The idea of brain surgery was not intimidating to Marley.

Flatt was diagnosed with a juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma (JPA) tumor, which was found to be benign but required surgery that left her deaf in one ear and involves follow-up chemotherapy to shrink ...