Briefly describe the 4 early symptoms of brain cancer

The early clinical symptoms of brain cancer are mainly manifested in four aspects:

Mental Disorder

The mental symptoms of brain tumors are relatively obvious, which can be manifested as memory loss and decreased attention. When the intracranial pressure increases slowly, it can lead to progressive dementia. The patient has intellectual impairment, apathy, and incontinence. When the intracranial pressure increases acutely or subacutely, it often causes mental confusion. It is also accompanied by epileptic seizures. Some patients have auras before convulsions. For example, temporal lobe tumors often have hallucinations, dizziness and other auras before epileptic seizures. Parietal lobe tumors may have abnormal sensations such as limb numbness before the onset of an attack.

Endocrine disorders

After brain cancer occurs, glandular disorders will manifest as endocrine disorders. For example, hypogonadism will manifest as impotence and loss of libido in men. Women will experience prolonged menstruation or amenorrhea, lactation, etc. Excessive secretion of growth hormone can lead to gigantism before maturity, and acromegaly after maturity.

Intermittent headaches

Headache is the most obvious symptom of brain cancer patients, but headache is intermittent, and the pain is throbbing and distending, and each attack lasts for minutes or hours. As the brain tumor continues to grow, the pain will worsen.

Vomit

The early symptoms of brain cancer have nothing to do with diet and are more common in the early morning. Vomiting is often accompanied by severe headaches. Sometimes brain cancer patients may experience projectile vomiting, but non-projectile vomiting is also common.