Headaches due to brain tumors
- Most patients complaining of headaches immediately suspect a brain tumor. Moreover, this is the primary reason for their physician visit.
- To alleviate this suspicion, they want to use highly advanced diagnostic tools. Considering the high number of patients with headaches, it becomes a societal issue. Advanced diagnostic methods like CT or MRI are often used unnecessarily just because the patient demands it.
- Headaches due to brain tumors are much less common than other headaches. Headaches in brain tumors usually do not occur alone. Along with the headache, other symptoms appear depending on the nerves in the tumor's location. Tingling, numbness, or dizziness in a specific body area may occur. As the mass grows, nausea and vomiting can be added. An essential characteristic of headaches in brain tumors is that the pain gradually increases and does not respond to painkillers.
