Symptoms of Brain Cancer

The brain is the center of life. All activities of life, until every detail, can only occur through a mechanism regulated by the brain. At the same time the brain must perform thousands of activities at once. For example, when we walk on the edge of a busy intersection, then the brain set foot step, set the eyes to see the sights and situations around the same time store them in memory, sending the ear captures the sound of incoming store, interpret, and respond to it. When all of a sudden heard a horn from the back of the brain tells the foot lightning bolt to the edge, ordered neck looking back, telling wide-eyed, telling the muscles tighten to tackle an emergency situation, telling the heart to pump blood faster, keep breathing nose told , and many more to be arranged.

All that can be implemented simultaneously as regulated by the brain is 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 smaller, smaller, and smaller again. Space filled with fluid between the brain (cerebrospinal fluid), while the exterior is protected by three layers of the lining of the brain (meninges) plus the skull.

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

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

Dr. Iskandar Japardi describes common symptoms of brain tumors and cancer are as follows:

Common Symptoms of Cerebral 
Can be either mild mental changes (psychomotor asthenia), which can be felt by people with close relatives such as: irritability, emotional instability, forgetfulness, slowing of mental and social activities, loss of initiative and spontaneity, may be found anxiety and depression. These symptoms are progressive and can be found running at 2 / 3 of cases.

Head Pain 
An estimated 1% of the causes of headache is a brain tumor and 30% of brain tumor early symptoms are headache. While the symptoms further found 70% of cases. The nature of head pain varies from mild and episodic to severe and throbbing, generally gets worse at night and on waking in the morning and in the situation where there is high intracranial pressure elevation. The existence of psychomotor asthenia headaches with brain tumors should be suspected.

Throw up 
Present in 30% of cases and generally meyertai headache. More often found in tumors in the posterior fossa, generally 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% of the cause of seizures is a brain tumor.It should be suspected cause of seizures is a brain tumor when:- First seizures at the age of more than 25 years- Experiencing post-ictal paralysis- Experiencing the status of epilepsy- Resistant to epilepsy drugs- Resurrection is accompanied by other symptoms of intracranial high pressure.Found seizures in 70% of brain tumors in the cortex, 50% of patients with astrositoma, 40% in patients with meningioma, and 25% in glioblastoma.

Symptoms of Intracranial Pressure  
Form of complaints of headache in the frontal and occipital regions that arise in the morning and evening, projectile vomiting and decreased consciousness. On examination found papil edema. This situation needs immediate action because of threats can arise at any time disc herniation. Moreover, it can be found parese N. Tumors that often provide symptoms without focal symptoms and lateralization is meduloblatoma, spendimoma from third ventricle, cerebellar haemangioblastoma, and craniopharingioma.

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

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

Parietal lobe tumor : 
Decreased ability to speak, Unable to write, Not able to recognize someone, Convulsions, Disorientation space

Tumors in the occipital lobe:
Loss of vision in one or both eyes, Convulsions

Tumor in the Temporal Lobe:
Decreased ability to speak, Convulsions, Sometimes no symptoms at all

Posterior fossa tumors :
Impaired walking, Headache, Vomiting

Tumors in Cerebello Pontin Angie: 
Hearing loss

Tumors in the Brain Stem: 
Changes in behavior and emotional (more sensitive, easily offended), It's hard to talk and swallow, Drowsiness, Headache, especially in the morning, Loss of hearing, Weakness of the nerves on one side of the face, Weakness of the nerves on one side of the body, Movement out of control, Loss of vision, the eyelids close, squint, etc

Brain Tumor in the membrane: 
Headache, Loss of hearing, Impaired speech, Incontinence (the inability to control urination / large), Mental and emotional disturbances (apathy, anarchists, etc.), Drowsiness prolonged, Convulsions, Loss of vision

The pituitary gland tumor : 
Stop menstruation (amenorrhea), Producing breast milk, Impotence

Tumors in the hypothalamus:
Disorders of sexual development in children, Little, Stop menstruation (amenorrhea), Disorders of fluid and electrolyte

Tumor in the ventricle: 
Hydrocephalus, Neck stiffness, Head tilt, Sudden headache, Blurred vision, Decrease in consciousness

Despite experiencing one or more symptoms as above only, not necessarily a person suffering from tumors or brain cancer. To be sure to do the direct examination by a specialist (surgeon) nerve and follow-up examinations such as CT scans, MRI, angiogram, myelogram, spinal tap, and biopsy.