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? asked in HealthDiseases & ConditionsCancer · 7 years ago

Brain Tumor Question?

I'm going to sound like an idiot, so feel free to laugh. But I remember hearing somewhere that your brain cells never multiply, and your born with a set amount. If that is true, how do you get a brain tumor? Are you born with cells that have the gene mutation? I hope I didn't offend anyone

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  • april
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Actually they to regenerate like all your other cells.

    for the idiots: http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20000306/get-smart...

    Source(s): i had brain cancer
  • 7 years ago

    You get cancer from an abnormal growth of cells in your brain. That tumor can be a primary tumor (meaning that it originates in the brain) or it can be a secondary tumor (meaning that it originated elsewhere in the body and migrated to the brain).

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