Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in or around the brain. They can be primary (originating in the brain) or secondary (metastatic, spreading to the brain from cancer elsewhere). They can also ...

Meningioma is the most common type of brain tumor. It does not develop in the brain tissue itself, but on the inside of the meninges, the membranes that surround the brain. In most cases, a meningioma ...

A Needham woman who worked for several years in Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s fifth floor maternity unit has become the seventh nurse to report being diagnosed with a benign brain tumor. Debbie Connolly ...

Newton-Wellesley Hospital “is a safe environment and is not the cause” of seven reported cases of noncancerous brain tumors among nurses in the fifth-floor maternity unit, two environmental ...