label: Childhood Cerebellar Astrocytoma
label_lc: childhood cerebellar astrocytoma
description: "Benign and malignant astrocytomas that arise from astrocytes in the cerebellum.  More than 80% of childhood cerebellar astrocytomas are pilocytic astrocytomas which have a favorable prognosis. The remainder are composed of diffuse or fibrillary subtypes with malignant astrocytomas occurring only rarely in the cerebellum during childhood."