Symptoms of Tumor / Brain Cancer

The brain is the center of life. All the activities of life, until every detail, can only occur through a mechanism regulated by the brain. At the same time the brain must be run for thousands of activities at once. For example, when we walk on the edge of a busy street, then set your brain stepped foot, set the eyes to see the sights and situations around at the same time save them in memory, had the ear caught the sound of incoming as well as store, interpret, and respond to it.
We suddenly heard a horn from the back of the brain send lightning bolt to the edge of the foot, sent the neck to look back, telling wide-eyed, tense muscles had to overcome an emergency situation, telling the heart to pump blood faster, made the nose keep breathing , and many more who should be under control, sometimes even in time-ordered cursing mouth ….

All that can be carried out simultaneously because the brain is governed by different. Yes, the brain has many parts that have different functions. Broadly speaking the brain is divided into three parts, namely a large brain (cerebrum), cerebellum (cerebellum), and brain stem (brain stem). Each section is divided into sections which are smaller, smaller, and smaller again. Fills the space between the brain fluid (cerebrospinal fluid), while the exterior is protected by three layers of the lining of the brain (meninges) plus skull.

Like other parts of the body, brain tumor or cancer can be affected. The difference is, if the rest of the body sometimes does not interfere with benign and harmless, even benign brain tumors can be very disturbing and endangering lives.

A large part of the brain that have a regulatory function of different body makes tumors and brain cancer have a very varied symptoms. Symptoms appear very dependent on the part of the brain where the tumor appeared.

Dr. Iskandar Japardi describes common symptoms of brain cancer were as follows:

General cerebral symptoms:

May be a mild form of mental changes (psychomotor asthenia), which can be perceived by close relatives of patients such as: irritability, emotional instability, forgetful, slow down mental activity and the social, loss of initiative and spontaneous, may be found anxiety and depression.

This phenomenon runs progressive and can be found in two thirds of cases.

Head Pain

An estimated one% the cause of head pain was 30% of brain tumors and brain tumor early symptoms are headaches. Meanwhile, further signs were found 70% of cases. The nature of head pain varies from mild and episodic to severe and throbbing, typically gain weight at night and on waking in the morning and in the situation where there is high intracranial pressure elevation. The existence of head pain with psychomotor asthenia need to suspected brain tumor.

Gag

There are at 30% of cases and generally headache meyertai. More often found in tumors in the posterior fossa, usually is projectile vomiting and was not accompanied by nausea.

Convulsions

Seizures can be an early symptom of brain tumors in 25% of cases, and more than 35% of cases at an advanced stage. An estimated 2% causes of seizures are a brain tumor.

Need seizures are suspected causes of brain tumors when:

- Generation seizures first time in more than 25 years of age
- Experiencing post iktal paralysis
- Having epilepsy status
- Resistant epilepsy drugs
- Generation is accompanied by other symptoms of intracranial high pressure.

Seizures observed in 70% of brain tumors in the cortex, 50% of patients with astrositoma, 40% in patients with meningioma, and 25% in glioblastoma.

In addition to the above general symptoms there specific symptoms based on the location and function of the brain are attacked. Among others:

Tumor in the Frontal Lobe:
- Changes in behavior and personality
- Decrease the ability to judge things
- Reduced power of smell
- Decrease memory
- Paralysis on one side of the body
- Impairment of mental function / cognitive
- Impairment of vision and eye nerve inflammation

Tumor in the parietal lobe:
- Decrease in the ability to speak
- Unable to write
- Not able to recognize someone
- Seizures, convulsions
- Disorientation space
Tumors of the occipital lobe:
- Loss of vision in one or both eyes
- Seizures, convulsions
Tumors of the Temporal Lobe:
- Decrease in the ability to speak
- Seizures, convulsions
- Sometimes no symptoms at all
Posterior fossa tumors in:
- Impaired walking
- Headache
- Vomiting
Tumor at Pontin Cerebello Angie:
- Hearing loss
Tumors of the Brain stem:
- Change in behavior and emotional (more sensitive, easily offended)
- It’s hard to talk and swallow
- Drowsiness
- Headache, especially in the morning
- Hearing loss
- The weakness of nerves on one side of the face
- The weakness of nerves on one side of the body
- Uncontrollable Movement
- Loss of vision, the eyelids close, squint, etc..
- Vomiting

Brain Tumor in the membrane:
- Headaches
- Hearing loss
- Disturbance talk
- Inkontinensi (unable to control urination / large)
- Mental and emotional disturbances (apathy, anarchists, etc.)
- Prolonged Drowsiness
- Seizures, convulsions
- Loss of vision
Tumor on the pituitary gland:
- Stop menstruation (amenorrhea)
- Producing milk
- Impotence
Tumors of the hypothalamus:
- Disorders of sexual development on children
- Pygmy
- Stop menstruation (amenorrhea)
- Disorders of fluid and electrolyte
Tumors of the ventricles:
- Hydrocephalus
- Neck stiffness
- Head tilt
- Sudden headache
- Blurred vision
- Impairment of consciousness

Although experienced one or more symptoms as above only, not necessarily a person suffering from a tumor or brain cancer. Should be further direct examination by specialist doctors (surgeons) nerve and further investigation such as CT scans, MRI, angiogram, myelogram, spinal tap, and biopsy.

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