Secondary brain tumors:

When cancer spreads from its main place to another part of the body, the fresh tumor has the same kind of abnormal cells and also has the same name as the primary tumor. Cancer which spreads from brain to another part of the body is different from a primary brain tumor. When cancer cells spreads to the brain from another organ (such as the lung or breast), doctors may call the tumor in the brain a secondary tumor or metastatic tumor. Secondary tumors in the brain is more common than primary brain tumors.


The following risk factors are linked with an increased chance of increasing a primary brain tumor:

1: Being male. Generally, brain tumors are more common in males than the females. However, meningiomas tumor are more general in females.

2: Race. In white people Brain tumors occur than among the people of other races.

3: Age. Mostly brain tumors are detected in peoples who are 70 years old or older. However, brain tumors is most common cancer in children. (The most common childhood cancer is Leukemia). Brain tumors are more common in children who are 8 years old than in older children.

4: Family history. The family members who have gliomas may be more likely to expand this disease.