Learn about the risk factors for brain and spinal cord tumors and if there are things that you might be able to do to help lower your risk.
A risk factor is anything that increases your chances of getting a disease such as cancer. Learn more about the risk factors for brain and spinal cord tumors.
Other than radiation exposure, there are no known lifestyle-related or environmental causes of brain and spinal cord tumors, so at this time there is no known way to protect against most of these tumors.