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- n. A glioma believed to originate from the oligodendrocytes of the brain or from a glial precursor cell.
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So, you know, this is the glioblastoma, which a lot of people have said speculatively, that the prognosis was worse than something like what's known as an oligodendroglioma, which is a different sort of tumor.
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The tumor, her doctors felt, was malignant (though it was probably an oligodendroglioma, of relatively low malignancy) and needed to be removed.
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They created the map by sequencing protein-coding genes in seven samples of tissue from oligodendroglioma tumors, and concentrated on recurring mutations in two genes CIC and FUBP1 not previously associated with those types of tumors.
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The scientists say that they could not compare survival data in oligodendroglioma patients, because there were too few tumors that did not carry the mutations.
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A total of 133 patients with anaplastic astrocytoma (AA, n = 56), anaplastic oligodendroglioma (AO, n = 67), or anaplastic oligoastrocytoma (AOA, n = 10) were included in the study.
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It was several more weeks before it was confirmed that the tumor was a third-stage anaplastic oligodendroglioma, a rare type of brain cancer.
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