Voices Against Brain Cancer

Voices Against Brain Cancer’s (VABC) mission is to find a cure for brain cancer and brain tumors by advancing scientific research, increasing awareness, creating a brain cancer and tumor community, and supporting patients, their families and caregivers afflicted with this devastating disease.

Saturday 23 April 2016

Diagnose The Tumor At The Earliest With These Signs And Symptoms Of Brain Tumor

A brain tumor is formed when the abnormal cells start forming within the brain. There are two types of tumors- malignant and benign. Cancerous tumors are further of two types- primary and secondary. Primary tumors start within the brain while the secondary tumors spread from the brain to other parts of the body like lungs and breasts. These are called brain metastasis tumors. People with brain tumor may experience many brain cancer symptoms. The brain tumor symptoms can be general and specific. A general symptom is caused by when the tumor inside the skull creates pressure which in turn causes pressure on brain or skull. Specific symptoms show up when a specific part of the brain stops working due to the tumor.
 
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Brain Tumor Symptoms

General brain tumors symptoms include headaches which worsen due to activity early in the morning. The persons with brain tumors may also experience convulsions or seizures which are nothing but involuntary movements of the muscles of a person. Convulsions are mainly of two types- Myclonic and Tonic-Clonic. The former type of convulsions include single or multiple muscle spasms, twitches or jerks while Tonic-Clonic includes loss of consciousness followed by contractions that are nothing but the twitching and relaxing of muscles. A person with brain tumor loses all his control on his bodily functions. He also experiences difficulty in breathing and the person’s colour may even turn blue.

There is also change in sensation, vision, smell and hearing when a person has a brain tumor. He may also lose memory fully or partially.

The specific symptoms include pressure and headache near the area of tumor. If the tumor is in the cerebellum, the person may also lose control of his balance and will find it difficult to do those works which require the use of fine motor skills. A tumor in the frontal lobe of cerebrum can result in the changes in judgement and make the person sluggish. Partial or total loss vision is experienced if the tumor is in the occipital or temporal lobe of the cerebrum. The person may also get confused with the right and left sides of the body if the tumor is in the parietal or frontal lobe of the cerebrum.

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