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Brain Tumor Basics

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A brain tumor is a mass of unnecessary cells growing in the brain. There are two basic kinds of brain tumors—primary brain tumors and metastatic brain tumors. Primary brain tumors start, and tend to stay, in the brain. Metastatic brain tumors begin as cancer elsewhere in the body and spreads to the brain.

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