What are the early symptoms of pancreatic tail cancer?

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Pancreatic cancer can be divided into pancreatic head cancer, pancreatic body cancer, pancreatic tail cancer and total pancreatic cancer. The early symptoms of pancreatic cancer vary with the location of pancreatic cancer. Carcinoma of the head of the pancreas is easy to oppress the common bile duct, block the bile excretion, and make the bile penetrate into the blood. It is most likely to cause jaundice, hepatomegaly, and the color of stool becomes lighter, showing white pottery soil. Therefore, pancreatic head cancer is more likely to be found in the early stage; The main symptom of pancreatic body cancer is pain, because the pancreatic body is adjacent to the celiac plexus, and the lesion is easy to invade the nerves. The pain is intermittent or persistent, and worsens at night; The symptoms of pancreatic tail cancer are more insidious, pain is rare, in addition to general emaciation, fatigue, food, dyspepsia, sometimes for abdominal mass, easy to be misdiagnosed as left kidney disease, so the patient must do a good job in the examination and diagnosis, the best is to go to a regular large hospital for diagnosis and treatment. So what are the early symptoms of pancreatic tail cancer? Let's talk about it now.

What are the early symptoms of pancreatic tail cancer?

First: abdominal pain: pancreatic body and tail cancer can lead to abdominal pain symptoms, located in the upper abdomen, umbilical or right upper abdomen, the nature of colic, paroxysmal or persistent, progressive aggravation of blunt pain, mostly to the back radiation, lying position and night aggravation, sitting, standing, leaning forward or walking pain can be reduced.

Second: jaundice: jaundice is one of the common symptoms of pancreatic body and tail cancer, jaundice is mostly obstructive, showing progressive deepening, accompanied by skin itching, urine color such as tea, feces into clay color. Most of them are caused by the compression of the common bile duct by the carcinoma of the head of pancreas, and a few are caused by the metastasis of the carcinoma of the body and tail of pancreas to the intrahepatic or hepatic / common bile duct lymph nodes.

Third: weight loss: about 90% of patients with pancreatic body and tail cancer will appear weight loss symptoms, develop rapidly, to the late stage can also be accompanied by malignant transformation. Causes of weight loss include consumption of cancer, loss of appetite, anxiety, insomnia, digestive and absorptive disorders, etc.

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Pancreatic body and tail cancer can lead to anorexia, diarrhea, constipation, abdominal distension, nausea and other gastrointestinal symptoms. A few patients will have fatty diarrhea, hyperglycemia, diabetes and other symptoms. In addition, as a result of cancer ulceration or infection, but also due to secondary bile duct infection and fever symptoms.