Any guesses? When I was a kid growing up, through attending a large elementary school, big middle school, and lager high school (not to mention college) I never knew of a kid dying of a brain tumor. Now, at my kids' elementary school I know of at least 2 this year alone? I've heard it reported that this is exploding. If so...why? Anybody who understands how cancer works is shocked by this whenever it occurs in a young child.