World Brain Tumor Day

Today, June 8, is World Brain Tumor Day. It is celebrated on every year to raise awareness among people about the condition, educate people about the consequences and also help people suffering from a brain tumour. The Deutsche Hirntumorhilfe, a German Brain Tumour Association is a non-profit organisation that started this commemoration in the year 2000 as a tribute to all brain tumour patients and their families.

Metastatic brain tumours develop when cancer originated in another organ of the body spreads to the brain and about 40% of all types of cancer spread to the brain. Reports reveal that the brain and central nervous system tumours are the second leading cancers in children and 26 % of childhood cancers.