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✔ Mental confusion (advanced stages of progressive growth and larger tumors).

✔ Blurred vision or visual loss (it is important to note that this is NOT a refraction disorder – when the problem is corrected by wearing glasses) ✔ Frequent progressive headaches that do not improve with the use of analgesics Symptoms depend on the size, location and growth of the tumor.īoth an intra-axial (inside the brain) and extra-axial tumor (around the brain, but inside the skull) may compromise the brain functions and present with: Symptoms first appear as headaches and seizures, caused by increased pressure of the growing tumor. They are usually benign (not cancer) and are more often found in middle-aged women. MENINGIOMA: tumor that grows from the meninges (protective membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord). Beware: gliomas do not arise from neurons! The symptoms of glioma vary by tumor’s location, and it can compromise brain functions. They begin in the gluey supportive cells (glial cells) that surround nerve cells. GLIOMA: type of tumor that occurs in the brain and spinal cord. There are different types of brain tumors, depending what cells it develops from. Secondary brain tumor or metastasis refers to cancer that begins elsewhere in the body spreads, reaching the brain, where it forms a tumor. A primary brain tumor is a mass or an abnormal cell growth, arising from in brain cells or the structures around it.