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Symptoms of a brain tumor (brain cancer)
The symptoms vary depending on the location of the tumor and its size. As it grows, the tumor, whether benign or malignant, exerts pressure on neighboring brain formations, altering their functioning. Be careful, certain symptoms of brain tumor can also be found in the event of stroke, cerebral abscess, intracerebral hematoma or even in certain arteriovenous malformations, thus risking misdiagnosis.
Some of the most common brain tumor symptoms include:
Symptoms of a brain tumor (brain cancer): understand everything in 2 min
- Headaches unusual, frequent and intense
- benefits nausea and vomiting
- Disorders vision : blurred vision, double vision or loss of peripheral vision
- benefits Numbness or loss of feeling on one side of the body
- Paralysis or a weakness one arm or one leg, on one side of the body only
- Dizziness, problems withbalanced and coordination
- Problemsspeech
- Disorders mémoire et confusion
- A modification of behaviours or personality, mood swings
- Disordershearing (especially in case of acoustic neuroma, a tumor of the auditory nerve)
- Epileptic seizures
- Loss of consciousness
- Loss of appetite