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unusual facts about brain tumour



Alan Igglesden

Igglesden suffered an epileptic fit when playing Minor counties cricket for Berkshire in 1999, and his medics discovered a non-cancerous brain tumour that was successfully treated by medication.

Doc Neeson

On Thursday, 10th January, 2013 it was announced that Neeson was diagnosed with a brain tumour and will undergo immediate treatment.

Jan Holden

In 1999, one of her twin daughters died from a brain tumour, but she remained cheerful and courageous until her own death in 2005.


see also

21 Years On

Recorded at the National Concert Hall, Dublin in 1983, this was the first album by The Dubliners to feature Seán Cannon, who joined the group when Luke Kelly could no longer perform regularly due to a brain tumour.

Mark Harvey

On 13 June 2010 The Age newspaper journalist Emma Quayle revealed in her book Nine Lives: football, cancer and getting on with life on former Essendon Football Club player Adam Ramanauskas that Harvey had, 10 years earlier, suffered from a brain tumour.