Head metastases of lung cancer?

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Cancer, this disease is very easy to spread and metastasis, it may be transferred to all parts of the body, in all the lung cancer metastasis process, metastasis to the brain is the most serious situation. Once patients with lung cancer brain metastasis, the speed of deterioration will accelerate, and the general conventional chemotherapy is no way to enter the brain, so chemotherapy for brain metastases of lung cancer is simply not effective. Brain metastasis is also one of the important causes of lung cancer treatment failure. Next, let's introduce the symptoms of lung cancer head metastasis?

Head metastases of lung cancer?

1. Lung cancer, once there is brain metastasis, will make the patient's intracranial pressure rise, so the patient will appear vomiting symptoms. In addition, patients with brain metastases from lung cancer usually vomit in a spray shape. In addition, patients will have headaches, which are usually the most serious in the morning.

2. There is a part of brain metastasis, patients will also have vision loss, this is mainly because of brain metastasis caused by patients with intracranial pressure rise. Because when intracranial pressure rises, it will cause venous blood flow is not smooth. Blocked venous blood flow will lead to retinal damage, which will affect vision.

3. There are also some patients with mental disorders in clinic, such as emotional fluctuations, abnormal excitement in some patients, emotional depression and memory loss in some patients. This is mainly because the tumor destroys the frontal lobe function of the anterior brain area.

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These are the common clinical symptoms of lung cancer after brain metastasis. In addition to the above common symptoms, some patients may also have hemiplegia, abnormal smell and limb weakness and other symptoms.