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Is it more likely for a brain tumor to have developed from nerve tissue or from neuroglia?

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Neuroglia: Statistically a brain tumor would more likely arise from glial cells, as in astrocytoma and glioblastoma.

Dr Villaplana agreed

Answered 3/26/2013

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