This PDQ cancer information summary for health professionals provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about the classification and treatment of adult brain tumors. This tool is available in English and Spanish.

This tool is organized into the following sections:

• General information
• Classification
• Treatment option overview
• Brain stem gliomas
• Pineal astrocytic tumors
• Pilocytic astrocytomas
• Diffuse astrocytomas
• Anaplastic astrocytomas
• Glioblastoma
• Oligodendroglial tumors
• Mixed gliomas
• Ependymal tumors
• Embryonal cell tumors: Medulloblastoma
• Pineal parenchymal tumors
• Meningeal tumors
• Germ cell tumors
• Tumors of the sellar region: Craniopharyngioma
• Recurrent brain tumors
• Metastatic brain tumors