Children are seemingly the happiest people in the world, without anything to care and fear about, living under the love and caring of their parents. But, what if… they have brain tumors? How would their lives be changed? How much pressure are they going to face and bear?

Pediatric brain tumors are much different from other tumors. Most of the time, they come from "young" cells, in which these cells are "immature" and "primitive" cells, they are still growing and developing and haven't completely reached maturity. These cells are developing at the same time as a child is developing. While you are looking at a way a regular cell grows up from its very beginning as a "primitive" cell through its stages of regular development to an adult cell type, you can begin to recognize the logic of the progress of the types of brain tumors in children.

For each regular cell type, there's a corresponding brain tumor that can occur from it. Therefore, there's the medulloblastoma, the astroblastoma, the neuroblastoma, the astrocytoma, the primitive neurectodermal tumor (PNET), the gangliocytoma or the neurocytoma and the ependymoma, etc. There are also other unusual tumors, like the teratoma, the pineablastoma, the esthesionauroblastoma, and so on.

Usually, children have brain tumors like the PNET, medulloblastoma and unusual tumors of the growing brainstem, optic nerves and hypothalamus. These brain tumors are uncommon and also hard to understand.

Children and parents should remember if you have any queries, you should ask the surgeons and the doctors. They can help you to have more confidence and need not to be fear anymore. It will direct the children during the process of the battle against their brain tumors. No matter how difficult, nosy or tired the surgeons or the doctors are, they will try the best to help the children and parents to understand the problem fully. It will make the children and parents feel a lot better. Nothing will be more important than the complete removal of the brain tumors. Some of these brain tumors indeed can be totally removed, such as hemangioblastoma, or be cured by other means like shunting, chemotherapy or radiation.