What are the symptoms that should alert me to a brain tumor? In other words, which symptoms in my body may be caused by a brain tumor? Before answering your question, there is one particularly important thing you must know: the symptoms of a brain tumor are closely related to the location of the tumor! Brain tumors affect the brain in three ways: by destroying normal brain tissue, by compressing normal brain tissue, and by increasing the pressure inside the brain. Its manifestations are various, and the most common ones are listed here: 1. Headache, this kind of headache is usually most serious in the morning, and the frontal area is the most serious, and then gradually reduce. About half of all brain tumor patients have persistent, chronic headaches. 2. Epilepsy, which is commonly known as tics or epilepsy, in which the body convulses uncontrollably during the attack. 3, nausea, may be accompanied by vomiting; vomiting is more common in children and can be jet-like. 4. Weakness or loss of consciousness on one side of the body. 5, Walking crookedly or unable to walk. 6, vision changes, eye movement abnormalities. 7, personality, memory changes, speech difficulties, slurred speech. 8, Increased sleep or even coma. Why do I get brain tumor and are there any factors that increase the risk of brain tumor? Due to the limitations of medical development, we have not found any risk factors that clearly increase the risk of developing brain tumors. However, the following factors may be involved: 1. Exposure to radiation, including radiation therapy for nuclear leaks and other tumors, and repeated CT scans at an early age; 2. Prolonged exposure to certain chemicals, such as petroleum and vinyl chloride; 3. Certain genetic disorders, such as multiple neurofibromatosis, retinoblastoma, or Li-Fraumenoma. 4. Damage to the immune system: e.g. AIDS (mostly lymphoma). Need to make a special statement: traumatic brain injury does not increase the risk of brain tumors! However, in fact, there are many brain tumor patients with the aforementioned risk factors are not related, and in turn, there are also many people who obviously have risk factors, but never got a brain tumor – why is this? Medical scientists are trying to find out the reason for this and hope to understand the secret of brain tumor as soon as possible. I have heard people say that tumor is a genetic disease, if I have a brain tumor, will my family members also get the disease? For most patients, the answer is “no”. It is true that there are some genetic disorders that result in multiple brain tumors in a family, but these are very rare and are usually detected and acted upon before a tumor develops. There are a number of genetic disorders that carry a genetic risk for gliomas, including type I multiple neurofibromas, Turcot syndrome, and Li-Fraumeni syndrome, which are complex enough that your doctor will take these things into consideration for you.