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Suggest Treatment For Brain Tumor
I just got news that my mom has a pineal brain tumor about the size of a dime and it is the cause of her falling all the time and back pain so the doctor wants to put a aren t in to drain the fluid from her brain why not just take the tumor out all together?
Fri, 13 Jun 2014
It is bcause taking out pineal tumour can cause more damage to brain than benefit best option is to get vp shunt done as adviced by ur doc
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