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Why might a person die suddenly 3 weeks after having a successful brain tumor surgery?
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Many possibilities: Many possibilities exist. Pulmonary embolus, a blood clot to the lung, is something that brain tumor patients have higher chance of having. However, heart attack, bleeding in the brain and a myriad of other reasons exist.
Answered 12/4/2014
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Many reasons: The most common cause is pulmonary embolus but if someone dies suddenly an autopsy is generally a good way to find out what happened.
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