Alopecia totalis; A woman with alopecia totalis: Classification and external resources; Specialty: dermatology: ICD-10: L63.0
CBS News Logo CBS News. Ted Kennedy Has Malignant Brain Tumor. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., Thursday, Dec. 20, 2001, during a Washington news conference in the Capitol. Doctors say Sen. Edward Kennedy has brain tumor, condition discovered after he had seizure.
Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in the brain. 1  Although such growths are popularly called brain tumors, not all brain tumors are cancer. 2  Cancer is a term reserved for malignant tumors. 3  Malignant tumors can grow and spread aggressively, overpowering healthy cells by taking their space, blood, and nutrients.etastatic brain tumors are made of cancerous cells from a tumor elsewhere in the body. The cells spread to the brain from another tumor in a process called metastasis. This is the most common type of brain tumor.