Rare Types of Brain Cancer

rare types of brain cancer via thetruthaboutcancer.com

The real question is how do you know you have a brain tumor that's a good question actually

most people would say well I had headaches what is very unusual not impossible but it's not

 usual for brain tumor patients to present with headaches the only time they do is if the tumor

bleeds into itself causing a sudden increase of the volume of the tumor within the head or if

there's a lot of swelling around the tumor or if the tumor obstructs the spinal fluid drainage

system causing a buildup of fluid or hydrocephalus so those are the situations in which people

 with brain tumors really present with headache and the headaches are unique because they

usually occur at night while you're sleeping when you're lying down that's when the pressure

really begins at night so the people will report that the headache actually awakens them from

 sleep the headache is usually associated with nausea and vomiting sometimes double vision so

 these headaches are not your typical own my pain in the back of the head I get it every day

and it's worse you know so on and so on it's it's a very specific type of headache that you get

 with brain tumors other tumors have no presenting symptoms whatsoever and these are the

ones that I consider to be pretty interesting because they bring up a real dilemma an ethical

dilemma and a medical dilemma how do you treat a tumor which was not found because you

were looking for a tumor it was found because you had a skin because you hit your head you

had a concussion you were in an automobile accident or perhaps you got a scan because you

have a movement disorder like Parkinson's disease or you got a scan for some other unrelated

 reason you have breast cancer and you heard that sometimes breast cancer goes to the brain so

you talk to your doctor into doing a brain scan and indeed there's your brain tumor these are

called incidentally discovered tumors and then of course you have to figure out okay down

what kind of tumor is it where is it what can I do about it does it have to be treated or can it

be watched and many of these incidentally found tumors don't really need to be treated they

need to be watched and if there's growth then they need to be treated but if there's no growth

then the same as they were there before they can stay there forever and it's that type of

 tumor that I think is really interesting because it it forces you to really be logical about the

decision making process as opposed to the knee-jerk reaction it's a big malignant tumor it's

got to be treated these tumors are not usually big they're not usually malignant and they may

 or may not need to be treated and then the rest of the tumor is either present with seizures

and there are all different kinds of seizures depending on where the tumor is there can be

visual seizures if the tumor is in the back of the head that can be motor seizures if the tumor is

on the side of the head that can be speech type seizures if the tumor is in the dominant

hemisphere in the speech area etc etc and then there are all variety of what they call complex

partial seizures if it's in the temporal lobe and these have all sorts of bizarre manifestations

some people will present with abdominal pain as collateral epilepsy so people with abdominal

pain might not have an ulcer they might have a brain tumor it can present with the petit mal

type of epilepsy where you just kind of stare in the space for a few seconds and recover your

 activities and so on and so on and finally seizures can present with in a real honest-to-god

neurological deficit numbness of one side of the body paralysis of one side of the body loss of

vision in one visual field double vision a variety of different symptoms like that so to recap

tumors present with no symptoms that it's incidental neurological deficits seizures and

 headaches caused by increased intracranial pressure increased pressure within the head. Next What Type of Brain Cancer is the Worst?

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