What are the symptoms of pancreatic cancer

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The company has done a free physical examination for all of us, which can be regarded as welfare. However, a colleague has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which makes us very puzzled. This person is usually in good health. How can he have pancreatic cancer? Now let's learn about the symptoms of pancreatic cancer.

What are the symptoms of pancreatic cancer

First: the early symptoms of pancreatic cancer is not obvious, the main symptoms are jaundice, eyes or skin yellowing, which can also appear in hepatitis or biliary diseases, so early pancreatic cancer has also been misdiagnosed as hepatitis or cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, general pancreatic head cancer jaundice more common, and appear earlier, cancer is limited to the body, tail, more no jaundice. Jaundice is mostly obstructive, showing progressive deepening, accompanied by skin itching, urine color such as tea, feces into clay color.

Second: in addition, unexplained emaciation of the body, in a short period of time, the body can not explain the weight loss of more than 10%. Causes of weight loss include consumption of cancer, loss of appetite, anxiety, insomnia, digestive and absorptive disorders, etc. Abdominal pain, low back pain, recent unexplained upper abdominal or low back pain. If early pancreatic cancer can be found and diagnosed, it will have a good therapeutic effect.

Third, pancreatic cancer has no specific initial symptoms and signs. Patients over 40 years old, with no predisposing abdominal pain, fullness discomfort, loss of appetite, weight loss, fatigue, diarrhea, low back pain, recurrent pancreatitis or sudden diabetes without family genetic history should be considered as high-risk population of pancreatic cancer, and should be alert to the possibility of pancreatic cancer when seeking medical treatment.

matters needing attention

From the above, the symptoms of pancreatic cancer in the early stage are not very obvious, but it is precisely because of this that when many patients have this disease, the deterioration of pancreatic cancer has been relatively high, so it is best to have a physical examination on time in life and have an understanding of their own health.