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Brain Tumour
Neurosurgery · Neurological
Severe
Severity
Rare — primary brain tumours affect roughly 6 in 100,000 people annually, though metastatic brain tumours are more common in cancer patients
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Neurosurgery
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1The exact cause of most primary brain tumours is unknown
- 2but risk factors include prior exposure to ionizing radiation
- 3certain inherited genetic syndromes such as neurofibromatosis
- 4and a family history of brain tumours. Metastatic brain tumours result from cancer cells spreading through the bloodstream from a primary cancer elsewhere
- 5most commonly lung
- 6breast
- 7or melanoma. Genetic mutations that drive uncontrolled cell division underlie the tumour's growth.
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