Symptoms
Pancreatic cancer symptoms are often mistaken for other illnesses. Always be alarmed when ’strange’ symptoms don’t go away in a couple of days.
Early symptoms of pancreatic cancers can include:
- weight loss,
- loss of appetite,
- general discomfort or pain around the stomach area,
- back pain and
- jaundice
About 5 out of 10 people have jaundice when they first go and see their doctors. Father who died from metastatic liver cancer never ever showed signs of jaundice!
All in all more or less the same as saying: you probably don’t know it before it is already far evolved, sounds quite similar to fathers metastatic liver cancer.
Pain and weight loss: clear symptoms of pancreatic cancer
You may lose a lot of weight for no apparent reason and at least 10% of your total body weight. About 7 out of 10 people with pancreatic cancer first go to their doctors because they have pain.
The pain is worse when you lie down and also after meals.
Jaundice is yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes.
The Urine is darker than normal and bowel motions may be lighter. Other possible symptoms may be itching, sickness, fever and shivering.
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