Tanner Collins (Collins family)It was a solution no parent wants to hear: To get rid of a brain tumor and stop their young son's seizures, surgeons would need to cut out one-sixth of his brain. Other than some visual impairment, Tanner, now 12, said he's “perfectly fine.”“As far as I’m concerned, I’m a perfectly normal 12-year-old boy,” Tanner said. He had a grand mal seizure and was diagnosed with a brain tumor on the right side of his brain. It was later identified as a benign and slow-growing tumor called a dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor, Behrmann said. Tanner Collins (Collins family)Read more:A 6-year-old was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor.

Source: Washington Post August 02, 2018 14:04 UTC