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Brain and Spinal Cord Tumor in Adults Causes, Risk Factors, and Prevention

Learn about the risk factors for brain and spinal cord tumors and if there are things that you might be able to do to help lower your risk.

Risk Factors

A risk factor is anything that increases your chances of getting a disease such as cancer. Learn more about the risk factors for brain and spinal cord tumors.

Prevention

Other than radiation exposure, there are no known lifestyle-related or environmental causes of brain and spinal cord tumors, so at this time there is no known way to protect against most of these tumors.

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