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What causes brain cancer? can having a traumatic brain injury cause brain cancer? what about environmental toxins?
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Not known: Trauma tio brain does not caiue cancer. No toxin that we can identify cause brain cancer.
Answered 3/3/2013
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Unknown: Trauma has nothing to do with brain tumors, and there are not environmental toxins that correlate so far with brain cancer. There is a controversy about whether cell phones or electromagnetic radiation can cause tumors, but truly unproven so far.
Answered 10/4/2016
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