What are the symptoms of advanced pancreatic cancer

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Recently, uncle often feels headache and weakness, and always has diarrhea. His stomach is often uncomfortable, and he vomits what he eats. His symptoms are very serious. People are getting thinner and thinner. The doctor says it's advanced pancreatic cancer. Now let me tell you what the symptoms of advanced pancreatic cancer are.

What are the symptoms of advanced pancreatic cancer

First: digestive system symptoms: the digestive system symptoms of the disease are abdominal discharge, vomiting, constipation, gastrointestinal inflation, nausea and so on. Nausea and vomiting can be temporary or only appear in abdominal pain; if the cancer invades the stomach, it can cause hematemesis and melena. Carcinoma of the body and tail of the pancreas may be palpable with masses of variable size, irregular, very hard and fixed. Gallbladder enlargement can be found in 90% of patients with pancreatic head cancer.

Second: general symptoms: emaciation is one of the important clinical manifestations of the disease. 90% of the patients have rapid and obvious weight loss. Some patients also take emaciation as the first symptom, especially in patients with pancreatic tail cancer and pancreatic body cancer. The causes of weight loss may be related to the decrease of stomach intake, indigestion and absorption, and insufficient pancreatic secretion. Jaundice is one of the main symptoms in the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Jaundice occurs in varying degrees according to the characteristics of the tumor location. Jaundice occurs in 100% of papillary and ampullary carcinoma.

Third: metastatic symptoms: pancreatic cancer can directly infiltrate the common bile duct wall, or obstructive jaundice occurs in the early stage due to cancer compression; at the same time of tumor development, cancer adheres to stomach, duodenum, large intestine and inferior vena cava, or infiltrates into organs, and then infiltrates superior mesenteric artery and portal vein, causing portal hypertension and ascites.

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The symptoms of advanced pancreatic cancer are more, because at this time the condition is more serious, and often accompanied by cancer cell metastasis, some of the common symptoms described above are likely to appear, often bring great pain to patients.