Study Links TBI to Higher Mortality Risk Due to Brain Cancer
A study conducted by a team at Mass General Brigham has found that people with a history of traumatic brain injury had a higher chance of dying as a result of brain cancer. The findings create an urgency to rethink how TBI cases are handled not just in the immediate aftermath but also over the long term. The study, whose findings were published in the journal Neuroepidemiology, analyzed a national database of more than 20,000 patients who had been treated for traumatic brain injury over a period of 37 years (1987–2024). The investigators were especially interested in finding out how a history of TBI impacted mortality risk in brain cancer,…
