Brain and spinal tumors and complications from other forms of cancer can cause long-term problems in terms of functional neurological deficits. Such deficits can extend to not just muscle weakness but issues with mobility, speech and cognition, plus seizures, blindness and even blackouts. These symptoms occur due to central nervous system malfunctioning, where signals are not being correctly sent and received. Such neurological complications can occur in patients with brain metastases, epidural metastases that cause spinal cord compression, plexopathies (when cancer spreads to the network of nerves, blood vessels or lymph vessels), leptomeningeal metastases (when cancer spreads to tissues covering the brain and spinal cord) and paraneoplastic disorders (conditions resulting from biological side effects of cancer).
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