Glossary

Children’s Cancer Study Group – This was a North American clinical trial cooperative group that was active in late 20th century with a mission to study childhood cancers. In 2000, the CCG merged with several other pediatric cooperative groups to form the Children’s Oncology Group (COG).

Lomustine, an alkylating nitrosourea drug that is highly lipid soluble.  It is used as an oral, chemotherapy drug for tumors inn the brain.

Lomustine-an alkylating nitrosourea that readily crosses the blood-brain barrier due to its highly lipid soluble nature. This has resulted in its wide use for the treatment of brain tumors.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – A United States federal agency whose mission is to protect the public health and safety by providing information to enhance health decisions. It does this through partnering with state health departments and other organizations in the United States and the world to understand the dissemination of disease and its control.

The brain and spinal cord. These structures receives and integrates information from the body via the peripheral nervous system and coordinates the activity of the elements of the body.

a non-progressive injury to the central nervous system occurring during gestation or in the perinatal period

Congenital heart disease.  A disorder or defect in the heart affecting blood circulation that is present at birth.  This can affect the heart’s valves, walls or its surrounding blood vessels.

of or resembling chitin (A tough, protective, semitransparent substance, primarily a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, forming the principal component of arthropod exoskeletons and the cell walls of certain fungi.)

A specific type of involuntary, abnormal muscle contraction characterized by a sudden, rapid, jerking pattern 0f movement.

Choroid Plexus Papilloma