Question: Are there any symptoms are visible for brain cancer, if so what does it include?

Karin Purshouse answered on 17 May 2022: last edited 17 May 2022 6:40 am

That’s a good question. You are right that it may be difficult to get visible symptoms because of where the brain is. Brain cancers usually cause symptoms related to where they grow in the brain. The brain is very organised – there are different areas that control speech, language, movement, sensation, vision etc. If a brain cancer grows in one of these areas, that will disrupt how that area works. For example, a brain cancer might result in weakness in one area of the body, or changes to speech. More general symptoms include headaches, seizures, feeling sick all the time, feeling less awake – and these are quite non-specific symptoms that can be caused by lots of other things too, which makes diagnosis difficult. I hope that answers your question.