'Tiny Pretty Things' actor Barton Cowperthwaite revealed he's been diagnosed with 'at least' a stage 2 cancerous glioma. The 31-year-old said an Instagram post Nov. 10 that the brain cancer is a result of a 'fairly decent sized brain tumor.' He said the cells originated in the brain, 'so it’s not spread from a cancer anywhere else in the body.' 'The only course of treatment for something like this is brain surgery,' he wrote in the post.
Depending on the type of glioma — astrocytoma, ependymoma, glioblastoma and oligodendroglioma — some are more likely to occur in adults while others in children. Glioma symptoms Johns Hopkins Medicine noted that symptoms may manifest slowly and subtly at first, while some patients with gliomas experience no symptoms.
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