Signs and symptoms of brain tumors

Signs and symptoms of brain tumors


Tumors in the brain can be detrimental to nerve cells and destroy them and thereby lead to neurological symptoms. The tumors lead to inflammation in the brain, increases the pressure on the brain cells or increase the pressure inside the skull. All of these things lead to symptoms.
Cases may be asymptomatic brain tumors, and that if the tumors are too small or they grew slowly. Some tumors grow quickly and thus lead to severe symptoms and prominent, and others of brain tumors grow slowly and lead to chronic symptoms.
Related symptoms of brain tumors the size of the tumor, its location, the inflammation and swelling surrounding the tumor and the spread of the tumor. The most prominent symptoms are:
· Headache: getting worse headache when you rise in the morning or when coughing, bending forward, and hide during the day.
Nausea and vomiting, and often have a companion to head pain.
· Seizures (Seizures).
· Blurred vision: It may be easing vision, double vision or complete loss of vision.
· Weakness in parts of the body: It may be weakness in the muscles of the face, or hand or leg muscles. Often unilateral weakness.
· Tingling or loss of feeling in some parts of the body, and are often on one side of the body, and may involve the face, hands or legs.
· Personal change, mood or behavior and behavior: where the patient may become more severe or violent, or be depressed.
• change the degree of awareness.
· Hearing impairment has been exacerbated for complete hearing loss.
· Loss of sense of smell or taste.
· Confusion.
· Memory loss.
· Loss of balance.
· Loss of coordination between the parties.
· Difficulty in walking.
· Problems in word or characters in the understanding of others.

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Types of brain tumors

There are several cells in the brain, tumors may arise from all the cells in the brain. Where there are nerve cells,  microglia - a helper cells of nerve cells and are in all parts of the nervous system - and the membrane surrounding the brain cells. Brain tumors are classified into several types according to several criteria, including the type of cells that arise from brain tumor, and the fact that a cancerous tumor or benign (non-cancerous). Type may be benign and then turns cancerous in some cases.Different prevalence of brain tumors, according to a special type of brain tumors, as some tumors stand out among young people and children, while other highlights in the elderly.



The most important types of brain tumors are:

· Glioma tumor: arises from glial cells, and has several types depending on the type of cell that the tumor arises. Some tumors are benign and some are cancerous. The most dangerous species, most notably is  Gliobalstoma which shows young people have more than others.


Meningeal tumor : membranes surrounding the brain called meningitis.. Tumor arising from this tissue tumor called meningeal. Highlights tumor meningitis in older people, especially after the age of forty, and is often non-cancerous. Meningeal tumor is the most common.·  Schwannoma: tumor arises from the other cells in nerve membranes, and be benign in most cases, but it may worsen to become cancerous.· Many other types of brain tumors may arise from the membranes of the brain, lymphocytes, or from glands in the brain.

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What are brain tumors

Brain tumors are a group of tumors that arise from brain cells, as a result of the proliferation of abnormal or regular cells within the brain. Tumors may arise from the neurons of the brain, the membrane surrounding nerves within the brain. There are several types of tumors may be benign or cancerous. Lead to the symptoms of brain tumors head speech, blurred vision and other, and may lead to complications such as loss of consciousness, seizures, and others. It is important to diagnose brain tumors because some species can be treated and cured sometimes. There are several possibilities for the treatment of brain tumors, including surgical treatment, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and treatment possibilities and change according to the type and stage of tumor.Risk factors for brain tumors


There is no reason a clear and specific to brain tumors. But some situations and factors increase the risk of brain tumors, both benign and cancerous. The most important of these factors are:
· Radiotherapy: radiotherapy for cancer and tumors outside the brain, may increase the risk of brain tumors.
· Genetic diseases: several genetic diseases increase the risk of brain tumors, including:
 NF-Neuro fibromatosis: is a hereditary disease that leads to many types of tumors in the body, especially in the nervous system, leading to brain tumors.
Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
· Radiation in the workplace: research still revolves around radiation exposure in the workplace, and so far no studies show prove the risk of brain tumors as a result of radiation.
· Cell phones: Despite the lack of clarity seriousness of cellular phones, the recent studies have demonstrated that exposure to cell phones and rays does not increase the risk of brain tumors.
 Metastases: the presence of cancer in other organs of the body, could lead to transmission of metastases to the brain.

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