NON-Hodgkin's lymphoma: cerebral lymphoma
Cerebral lymphoma, which is a form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, is a relatively rare brain cancer. Cancerous lymph cells come into the brain tissues and cause the tumor to develop.
What are the symptoms of cerebral lymphoma?
The first symptoms of brain lymphoma are often headaches of increasing intensity, more frequent in the morning when waking up and regularly accompanied by nausea. They are then accompanied, depending on the location of the tumor, dizziness, vision disturbances, speech difficulties, localized paralysis. They can also cause generalized or partial epileptic seizures. A great fatigue gradually settles down, followed by an alteration of the general condition with sometimes a fever.
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How to treat cerebral lymphoma?
The treatment of cerebral lymphoma consists mainly of chemotherapy, using methotrexate at high doses. This medicine penetrates well into the brain tissues but is at the origin of multiple, sometimes severe, side effects linked to the fall of the immune defenses it causes. This chemotherapy can be accompanied by radiotherapy in the young adult to consolidate the treatment. It is associated with symptomatic management based on corticotherapy, antiepileptic drugs, physiotherapy, speech or orthoptic rehabilitation, to limit the risk of definitive neurological sequelae.
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