This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Biology of Brain Tumour. The first Symposium was held in 1979 at Gardonne Riviera, Italy. This meeting was planned in order to coincide with the lOOth Anniversary of the first reported operation for glioma in London on November 25, 1884. Since the first meeting, the field of neuro-oncology has made remarkable progress in understanding both basic and clinical factors of significance to patients with brain tumor. While the earlier meeting dealt to a large extent with clinically oriented studies, this symposium was...

Malignant brain tumours remain a not uncommon cause of disability and premature death, particularly in children and middle-aged adults. This is only too weIl known by those con- cerned with the dinical management of such patients. Thus, not onlyare malignant cerebral gliomas very aggressive tumours, usually associated with a rapidly fatal outcome, but also it has been recognised more recently that low grade gliomas often have a poor prognosis. Furthermore, the increased application of non-invasive neuroradiological imaging to patients with other types of tumour has disdosed an even larger...

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Biology of Brain Tumour. The first Symposium was held in 1979 at Gardonne Riviera, Italy. This meeting was planned in order to coincide with the lOOth Anniversary of the first reported operation for glioma in London on November 25, 1884. Since the first meeting, the field of neuro-oncology has made remarkable progress in understanding both basic and clinical factors of significance to patients with brain tumor. While the earlier meeting dealt to a large extent with clinically oriented studies, this symposium was...