What are the signs of brain cancer?

When it comes to tumors, many people are terrified, especially brain tumors. In fact, many brain tumors can be cured now, so we must face them correctly, detect them early, and treat them in a timely, correct and standardized manner. So, what are the signs of brain cancer?

Symptom 1: Morning headache

Many brain tumors often cause morning headaches, even accompanied by nausea. The headache is often worst when waking up from a night's sleep and will gradually ease after getting up. General headaches can be relieved in the afternoon. If it is a frequent symptom, it is very necessary to do a head CT or MRI examination to rule out the possibility of a tumor.

Symptom 2: Projectile vomiting

Brain tumors cause increased intracranial pressure and lead to vomiting, which usually occurs when there is a severe headache. The headache may be relieved after vomiting, so you should pay attention to it.

Sign 3: decreased vision, double vision

In the early stage, it may be temporary blackout and short-term vision loss. As the disease worsens, it gradually becomes a persistent vision loss, and may eventually lead to complete blindness. Diplopia: The images of the two eyes cannot overlap, and any object appears as a double image. Diplopia initially only occurs when the eyes are looking in a certain direction, and then it can develop to occur in any direction. Finally, when the positions of the two eyes are significantly asymmetrical, the diplopia can be reduced or even disappear. Many patients often first visit the ophthalmology department when they have eye diseases, but if the above symptoms occur, the possibility of cranial and brain lesions must not be ignored.

Symptom 4: Visual field loss

It usually presents with bitemporal hemianopsia, which can hinder the patient's behavior in severe cases.

Symptom 5: Bulging of one eye

That is, one eyeball protrudes forward, which may affect the eyelid in severe cases, causing palpebral fissures and incomplete eyelid closure. 50% of cases of unilateral eyeball protrusion are caused by intracranial diseases, the most common cause of which is brain tumor.

Symptom 6: Unilateral deafness

If middle-aged people have no history of otitis media and trauma, and only have progressive hearing loss on one side, with or without tinnitus on the same side, it is mostly caused by tumor compression of the auditory nerve. Some patients also have damage to the facial nerve.

Symptom 7: Epileptic seizure

If epileptic seizures occur without any cause, an intracranial tumor should be considered first. If the seizure is limited to one side or starts from a limb, a brain tumor should be considered in both adults and children.

Symptom 8: Hemiplegia

There are two different situations: one is hemiplegia or hemiplegia, which is characterized by less or no movement of the affected limbs; the other is unilateral limb ataxia, which is characterized by clumsy or unstable movements. If these two symptoms appear slowly and gradually worsen, they may be signs of brain tumors. The former is more common in cerebral hemisphere tumors, while the latter is a sign of cerebellar hemisphere tumors, which need to be distinguished from stroke.

Sign 9: Acromegaly

It is a unique clinical sign of pituitary tumors, seen in adults, with the main manifestations being thick and enlarged hands and feet, prominent brow arches and mandible, and ugly appearance. Children with the disease may develop into giants.

Sign 10: Amenorrhea and lactation

Amenorrhea and lactation in non-pregnant women of childbearing age are often the first symptoms of pituitary tumors. In men, the main symptoms are impotence and loss of pubic hair, axillary hair, beard, etc., and thickening of subcutaneous fat.

For patients with brain tumors, early detection, diagnosis and treatment are the key to improving the treatment effect of patients. Many patients do not pay attention to some subtle changes in the body in the early stage. In fact, these all indicate the occurrence of the disease. If you have the above ten symptoms, you must go to the hospital as soon as possible.