The important clarification that Fafara had to post on Instagram immediately after the story spread: it is not a brain tumor. The tumor is non-cancerous and located just above his jawline near a salivary gland, not in his brain. "I do not have a brain tumor. What he does have is an inoperable benign tumor that doctors are monitoring every six months. The twist: it has actually been shrinking on its own, which his doctors have told him they have never seen before.