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1 Dr. Sergio Canavero says he is two years away from performing the first total human head transplant. 2  The first patient will be a 30-year-old Russian man with a rare, genetic muscle wasting disease. 3  One ethicist says Canavero should be helping paralyzed patients walk before performing body transplants.
Doctors use many tests to find, or diagnose, a brain tumor and learn the type of brain tumor. They also do tests to learn if it has spread to another part of the body from where it started. This is called metastasis and is rare for a brain tumor. Doctors may also do tests to learn which treatments could work best.