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Your cancer your life – symptoms of extensive (metastatic) disease (cancer in the brain) YOUR CANCER YOUR LIFE – SYMPTOMS OF EXTENSIVE (METASTATIC) DISEASE (CANCER IN THE BRAIN)
If cancer involves the brain, the first signs may just be symptoms of raised pressure within the skull—headache, vomiting and maybe blurred vision. Of course, there are many other possible reasons for these symptoms. Contrary to what many people imagine, cancer in the brain very rarely causes the complete alteration in personality which some people call 'madness'. Its effects depend on which part of the brain is involved. For example, if a cancer growth is in the part of the brain that controls the left side of the body, the patient can lose the ability to use the left arm and leg normally. This usually develops gradually and may be accompanied by numbness and/or twitchy movements of those limbs. Some patients have convulsions ('take fits') just like those that epileptics have. These can usually be prevented with the same drugs as we use for epileptics. There is treatment which can reduce the pressure on the brain, and in some types of cancer treatment can temporarily shrink the growths. Once cancer has spread to the brain however, it can never be permanently cured. Eventually the growths produce such a high pressure on the brain that the patient gradually loses consciousness and dies.
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