he and his wife both had acoustic neuromas. his sister had glioblastoma. how common are these types of tumors, specifically, and can they develop from the same environmental source, even though they re different types of tumors? yeah, that s a good question. so the incidents, meaning new number of cases of primary brain tumors is different, oftentimes based on age. in particular when we see them in younger folks, children, teenagers and maybe even younger aged teachers, we expect maybe five to at most ten in 100,000. as people get older that can get closer to 15 to 20. but again, relatively rare. if you look at the number of people that have lived in that area and certainly attended that high school, what we re seeing or what it seems to be is that the numbers significantly more than we would expect to naturally occur just over time. so interesting. do you think it s safe for the school to remain open while they
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Local and federal environmental agencies say they are assisting the town of Woodbridge, New Jersey, in its investigation into more than 100 graduates of the same high school that have been diagnosed with rare brain tumors.