Brenton Gurney, 38, from Sydney, suffered a series of headaches but an MRI scan found nothing wrong, so he convinced his brother Craig to have a scan.
Craig's MRI revealed a brain tumour in the base of his skull. It has been removed in a 10-hour operation and he has safely recovered.
"Ultimately Brenton saved my life," Craig told The Sydney Morning Herald.
Brenton said: "We've always been really, really close."
During the gruelling operation, Brenton said, the family often looked over to him in the waiting room as to detect his brother's progress.Previously, it was Craig who had divined maladies in his twin. He detected when his brother had a life-threatening mystery rash and when he dislocated a shoulder – and both men have married women named Nicole.
"We're really closely connected and we've always been able to pick each other, know what each other were thinking," Craig told Channel Nine.
Justine Gatt, from the University of Sydney, who has been studying twins, said the discovery of a tumour in this way was "not something that happens often".
Asked whether the twins might have a telepathic connection, Dr Gatt said: "There's so much we don't know." She added: "In terms of Brenton's and Craig's case, where one twin was feeling the symptoms of the other, that clearly shows that there's a lot more to know and this kind of research is central to mental health."
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