# Unanticipated early origins of childhood brain cancer

**URL:** <https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/unanticipated-early-origins-of-childhood-brain-cancer/2384>\
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**Created:** [May 1, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/unanticipated-early-origins-of-childhood-brain-cancer/2384 "2019-05-01T20:16:56Z")\
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> **[Unanticipated early origins of childhood brain cancer: Study identifies...](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190501131339.htm)**
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> Brain tumors are the leading cause of non-accidental death in children in Canada, but little is known about when these tumours form or how they develop. Researchers have recently identified the cells that are thought to give rise to certain brain...

  
Brain tumors are the leading cause of non-accidental death in children in Canada, but little is known about when these tumours form or how they develop. Researchers have recently identified the cells that are thought to give rise to certain brain tumors in children and discovered that these cells first appear in the embryonic stage of a mammal’s development - far earlier than they had expected.