Survival Rate on Brain Cancer?

Question

What is the survival rate on brain cancer after 90% of the tumor is removed through surgery and going for radiation therapy? And the surgery was on the initial stage.

Answer 1

This question cannot be answered in the format it was ask.  What kind of brain cancer;  where was it in the brain;  what stage was it in.

Ask your Doctor these questions as he would know from the medical record.  

Answer 2

Primary Malignant Brain Tumors

A primary malignant brain tumor is one that originates in the brain itself. Although primary brain tumors often shed cancerous cells to other sites in the central nervous system (the brain or spine), they rarely spread to other parts of the body.

Brain tumors are generally named and classified according to the following:

The normal brain cells from which they originate, or

The location in which the cancer develops

The biologic diversity of these tumors, however, makes classification difficult, and some experts believe that more specific categories are needed.

Categories of Primary Glioma Brain Tumors by Cell Types

About half of all primary brain tumors are known collectively as gliomas. They are cancerous forms of glial cells, the building-block cells of the connective, or supportive, tissue in the central nervous system. There are several glial cells types from which gliomas form. Their names are:

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