How to diagnose and differentiate pancreatic cancer

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My 67 year old father has just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In last year's physical examination, I found that the pancreas was not very good. I took both Chinese and Western medicine, but it didn't have any effect. I always felt uncomfortable in my abdomen. Two days ago, I did MRI in the hospital. The doctor said that it could be confirmed that it was pancreatic cancer, and there was no need for surgery. Now let's talk about how to diagnose and identify pancreatic cancer.

How to diagnose and differentiate pancreatic cancer

Symptom 1: more and more serious jaundice, jaundice is one of the most important symptoms of pancreatic cancer, often is the first symptom. Generally speaking, jaundice deepens very quickly day by day, the patient's feces are clay colored, the skin is itchy, the serum bilirubin is significantly increased, but the transaminase is only slightly increased.

The second symptom is abdominal pain. The tumor occurs in the body and tail of pancreas. The pain continues to increase with the course of the disease, which can be divided into blunt pain, drilling pain, colic, etc., and increases after meals. In addition, the pain was obvious in supine position or spinal extension. Severe abdominal pain can be accompanied by low back pain.

Symptoms three: weight loss, it is obvious that patients will quickly lose weight, on the one hand and cancer consumption, on the other hand is eating less, insufficient pancreatic secretion affects the digestion and absorption of food, secondary diabetes.

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Pancreatic cancer is a kind of cancer, characterized by abdominal mass and abdominal pain. The occurrence of one disease usually leads to other diseases.