Symptoms due to the position of the brain tumour
To understand why a brain tumour is causing particular symptoms, it might help to read our section about the brain. It explains what the different parts of the brain do. As a brain tumour grows, it presses on the brain tissue around it. So it affects the part of the body, or the body process, that is controlled by that part of the brain.
Here are symptoms that can be caused by tumours in different parts of the brain and the spinal cord