To get a little more unlikely, you have only about a 1 in 100 chance of developing a brain tumor during your life and a 1 in 102 chance of getting killed in an automobile accident if you live in the US.
" Just because you have a headache doesn't mean you have a brain tumor, OK? " he said. " Just because you're short of breath doesn't necessarily mean you have lung disease."
Her book A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing tells us the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor.
Brain tumors are managed surgically or with chemotherapy, and behavioral and developmental problems are managed through therapy and psychiatric medications.