BOSTON — A paper titled "Brain Cancer Mortality following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): A TBI Model Systems Study" was published in Neuroepidemiology. The study reported that survivors of traumatic brain injury have an increased risk of dying from brain cancer.
The research found that TBI survivors were 1.75 times more likely to die from brain cancer compared to the general population. Data for the study was drawn from the TBI Model Systems National Database, which contains information on over 20,000 civilians. These individuals received inpatient rehabilitation for TBI between 1987 and 2024.
The study also examined specific factors related to TBI. Individuals who sustained injuries from gunshot wounds showed a higher risk, being more than 14 times more likely to die from brain cancer. Additionally, survivors with mild but complicated TBI had nearly four times the brain cancer mortality risk. Daniel Daneshvar served as the senior author of the study, and Charlotte Luster was the lead author.
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