Are benign brain tumors hereditary?

About 5% of brain tumors may be linked to hereditary genetic factors or conditions, including Li-Fraumeni syndrome, neurofibromatosis, nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, Turcot syndrome, and von Hippel-Lindau disease. read more

Seizures and brain tumors are also associated, but it is difficult to know if the tumor causes the seizures, the seizures increase the risk of tumors, or if there is a relationship with anti-seizure medications. read more

Some tumors have very high chance of being hereditary such as neurofibromatosis (NF) which is essentially a syndrome having multiple brain tumors. Person with a type of NF have high likelihood of having vesticular schwannoma, meningioma, optic glioma etc. read more

First tumors were in his ribs, next his hip, then spine and last–in his brain, killing him in 1974 when I was 16 years old. When my father died he was the tenth known case of his cancer and my Aunt Ann, the eleventh, in 1987. read more