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Expert: - 9/5/2007


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please can you tell me the prognosis for a well differentiated R oligodendroglioma with unknown grade at present - only symptom one seizure - self resolving without rescue meds. Currently asymptomatic although on Steroids to reduce ICP. The immunohistochemycal stain showed positive parafin staining gfap with occassional KI67 positive cells?

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Without knowing the grade it is difficult or rather impossible to give you an accurate evaluation. However that it is necessary with corticosteroids is certainly not a good sign. If it really is well differentiated it would however seem likely that its grade is low. No information of that at all?

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Claes-Gustaf Nordquist, M.D.

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I`m a doctor of medicine and specialist in radiation therapy and medical oncology. I have a long time experience of these tumours.

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I'm a Doctor of Medicine and specialist in Medical Oncology and Radiation Therapy, educated and trained in Sweden. Now retired. Background in Radiation Therapy, Medical Oncology, Radiation Protection, Nuclear Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology, Gynecological Oncology, Clinical Pathology, Clinical Cytology,Hematology and Internal Medicine. M.D. from the faculty of medicine, Royal Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Have also been an exchange student at the Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem Israel. Former medical consultant, Swedish National Board of Radiation Protection. Former Police Surgeon and Medical Examiner, Stockholm Police Department. Former Chief Medical Officer, The Royal Guards, The Royal Horse Guards and the Royal Household Brigade, Royal Swedish Army Medical Corps. You can also reach me on: http://www.lifestylerescue.com/expert/health-fitness-advice/dr-claes-gustaf/128 . I have no restrictions on the number of questions there. I also answer questions about Oncology (General Cancer), General History, Military History, Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer.

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