What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Brain Cancer?
Brain cancer is a malignant mass growing in the brain. There are two forms of brain cancer: primary, which is rarer and starts in the brain. Types of primary brain tumors include acoustic neuroma, astrocytoma, ependymoma, ependymoblastoma, medulloblastoma, meningioma, neuroblastoma, oligodendroglioma and pineoblastoma. Secondary, or metastatic brain tumors, are where the cancer spreads to the brain from another area. The most common cancers that have brain metastasis are breast cancer, colon cancer, kidney cancer, lung cancer, melanoma, neuroblastoma and sarcoma. Signs and symptoms for brain cancer vary due to the location in the brain, the rate that the tumor is growing and its size.
