Why Does A Brain Cancer Patient Develop Slurred Speech?
I have a friend who’s breast cancer has just spread to her brain. She is on many treatments, and her speech has become a little slurred, slowed, and sometimes difficult. What is causing this? Will it fix itself or stay like that forever?
There are several possibilities regarding the speech problem:
* The tumor(s) are damaging her brain’s speech center
* The chemotherapy drugs and/or other medication are impacting her speech center
* She had a stroke.
Youir friend has stage 4 breast cancer with brain metastasis, so her prognosis is very poor. While chemo may slow the progress of her disease, you need to have realistic expectations about her future. The tone of your remark, “will it fix itself or stay like that forever?”, suggests that you do not understand her prognosis.
Your friend does not have brain cancer she has breast cancer that spread to her brain and therefore the cancer in the brain is breast cancer. The cancer is likely in the part of the brain that controls speech and this is the reason for the changes you have noticed or it could be due to the stroke. Cancer does not fix itself. Treatment may relieve some of the symptoms and hold them off for a while, but stage 4 breast cancer is not curable.
It is possible based on where the tumors have spread to. If it has spread to the cognitive area of the brain, speech can and does become slurred. The cognitive area of the brain controls speech, movement, balance, etc. When an invader (tumors) moves in, the part of the body that controls it goes out of whack.
Your friend does not have brain cancer at all. The breast cancer has just spread to her brain hence the cancer in the brain is breast cancer not brain cancer and it appears she might be stage 4 which is not curable and will only get worse. Im sorry.
it will probably stay that way forever until the doctors can fully get the cancer out of both her breasts and brain, as for the cause, it’s probably the cancer making her speech slurred, slowed and difficult