Symptoms of brain cancer

Unfortunately, the symptoms of brain cancer can be so diverse that they can easily be mistaken for a completely different disease.

In addition, not all cancers are manifested in general by any signs: many oncological formations have a latent flow and find themselves already at the last, inoperable stage. This is the insidiousness of cancerous tumors, because most situations with early detection of brain oncology occur by pure chance, when the patient does not even guess about the existence of any problem.

Nevertheless, there are quite a lot of symptoms that many patients ignore, not perceiving the seriousness of the problem, and they need to be known necessarily.

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The first symptoms of brain cancer

Clinical manifestations of brain cancer can depend on the location of the pathology in relation to the functional parts of the central nervous system. Simply put, if the tumor is located near the motor center, the patient may have signs of impaired coordination, control of the amplitude of movements, etc. When dislocation of the cancer along the optic nerves, the visual symptoms will predominate among the symptoms: deterioration of focus, double vision, ripple in the eyes.

Manifestations of cancer of the meninges are diverse, and that's what patients complain most often:

• headache - painfully, constantly, especially with physical exertion, sudden movements, intensifying in the morning; tablets (analgesics, paracetamol), as a rule, do not help;
• often vomiting, there are desires for vomiting, but they do not bring the expected relief of the condition;
• constantly want to sleep, because of which it becomes impossible to concentrate on work or study;
• disorders of visual and auditory functions are observed;
• sometimes speech becomes confused, phrases may not be linked, the course of thought loses logic;
• Memory worsens, sometimes it's not possible to recall some events, even those that happened quite recently; it becomes difficult to switch consciousness, concentrate on something;
• muscles become weak, sluggish, some movements can be given with difficulty;
• appears oppressed with elements of depression, apathy, gradually losing interest in the world around him;
• the sensitivity of the fingers, limbs, sometimes on the one hand, can be disturbed;
• can appear non-existent visions, mutate odors, ostensibly to hear extraneous sounds;
• in more severe cases, convulsive conditions attach.

These signs can appear separately, or be combined with each other, gradually increasing along with the progression of the tumor process.

Not always listed symptoms mean cancer: only a special diagnosis can confirm the diagnosis.

Symptoms of brain cancer in children

The clinical symptoms of brain cancer in children have their own specific differences and characteristics. Firstly, this is a long latency period of the disease, which can be due to the constant growth of the volume of the infant's cranium and the excellent vital resources of the young organism.

Pain sometimes appears not only in the head, but also in other organs, so that the diagnosis of the disease becomes even more confusing.

Headache and other symptoms of brain cancer in children are often not permanent, but undulating, which can be mistaken for the sign of inflammatory pathology.

Sluggish progressive signs of increased intracranial pressure can gradually manifest themselves on the child's mental development: children become apathetic, refuse to play, often cry and fuss for no apparent reason.

Older children begin to avoid communication, become withdrawn, they lose appetite, body weight decreases.

The mention of a child about headaches is often absent, the problem is only displayed by his changed behavior, which the child himself can not explain in any way.

The brightness and concretization of symptoms occurs even when the brain functions are decompensated. In such cases, the appearance of obvious headaches, pressure fluctuations, hallucinations, nausea, and cardiac disorders are characteristic.

Symptoms of bone marrow cancer

Bone marrow cancer is relatively rarely a primary disease. Most often it occurs as a metastatic focus of a maternal tumor located in another organ.

As in most cases of cancer development, the first signs of bone marrow cancer are left undetected or ignored. Among them, such rather common symptoms as significant weight loss, unmotivated fatigue, sluggish appetite, periodic changes in body temperature, decreased immunity.

More specific symptoms include:

• the appearance of incomprehensible bone outgrowths in the absence of traumatic lesion of this part of the bone;
• the occurrence of spontaneous causeless fractures;
• persistent soreness of some bones;
• pain and swelling in the joints;
• reduction of motor activity and amplitude of movements;
• pallor of the skin, decrease in the amount of hemoglobin in the blood;
• muscle weakness, fatigue, difficulty breathing.

Symptoms of cancer can differ in intensity and variety of manifestations. In addition, this symptomatology can accompany many other diseases, so when making a diagnosis of the history of the anamnesis will be extremely inadequate, additional survey methods are required.

Symptoms of Spinal Cord Cancer

Spinal cord cancer is most often formed as a result of metastasis of another tumor of any localization. Symptoms of cancer of the spinal cord are divided into three stages:

• radicular stage is accompanied by severe pain in the area of the exit of certain nerve endings. Depending on the location along the spine, in which the tumor develops, and specific symptoms are identified. For example, a cancerous tumor located at the level of the lungs can give signs characteristic of pulmonary or cardiac diseases; a tumor at the level of the waist is mistaken for the pathology of the kidneys or intestines, etc. One of the few characteristic features of this period is an increase in the pain of the spine during sleep, when the body is in a horizontal position;
• Braunsekarovsky stage is a deeper stage, at which there are initial disorders of the abdominal cavity organs (violations of the act of defecation, enuresis, renal failure). Possible unpleasant sensations when walking, associated with increasing muscle weakness;
• the paraplegic stage represents an extreme stage, for which vegetative disturbances and a decrease in the supply of tissues are characteristic. The first signs of this stage are numbness of the limbs, reduction of pain and temperature sensitivity, urinary incontinence and stool. The soreness of the spine at this stage may no longer be manifested.

It should not be inclined to any diagnosis only on the basis of the similarity of the clinical symptoms of the disease. Any disease, especially oncological pathology, should be examined comprehensively with the use of laboratory and apparatus research methods. However, to ignore the suspicious symptoms of brain cancer is also unacceptable: it depends not only on your health, but also on life.