Can a stuttering disorder be a symptom of brain cancer?
Sunday, February 12th, 2012 at
7:32 pm
Question by LBC: Can a stuttering disorder be a symptom of brain cancer?
I forgot exactly where, but I read that a stuttering disorder could be brought on by brain cancer. If this is correct, is it a specific kind of brain cancer? If any person has any thought,could you clarify this in an straightforward understandable way?
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Answer by Diamond Dylan
It really is not associated.
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There is no evidence that relates stuttering to brain cancer. Stuttering can either run in your genes, or be caused from either an emotional trauma .
Stuttering can be a symptom of brain cancer, but this would be one symptom of many, many others looked at. Stuttering can be a disorder all on it’s own or it can be linked to other problems.
i am 13 and dying of lung cancer and a humungus unremoveable brain tumor and yes before it was discovered i started stutering. good luck
My friend has brain cancer. the 1st and most telling symptom was morning headaches. 2nd was ‘speech arrest’….similar to stuttering but not the same. The benefits from these “stuttering events’ are like when the gas gage lights up on your dash. It is time for more fuel ( Med in her case)
i think stuttering is not as much as the ‘specific type” of brain cancer,but it shows us a better idea of which parts of the brain the tumor is encroaching upon.
It wouldn’t be a stuttering disorder.
But if you have a brain tumor it can cause slurred speech which can mimic a stuttering disorder.
My husband has Stage 4 Brain Cancer “Glioblastoma Multiforme” and currently lost his ability to speak due to 17 brain surgeries, scare tissue built up on the brain, and his cancer (the tumor’s location). It is actually not considered “stuttering”, they either have slurred speech or have trouble “Word finding” or forming the words.
One would mistake “slurred speech” or “trouble with word finding” as stuttering, it is the first word that best describes the problem if we are unfamiliar with the difference.
It doesn’t hurt to get things checked out, an MRI scan will rule out a brain tumor or maybe there is some type of pressure pushing on that perticular part of the brain that controls one’s speech (there are actually 2 sections of the brain which controls speech, a section in the front of your brain, and a section in the back of your brain).
Sometimes excessive amounts of fluid or swelling of the brain can cause pressure on those parts which could make one “stutter”.
Be safe, get whoever is having the issue checked out. Good Luck