What are the symptoms of pancreatic cancer

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Recently, my father-in-law always feels that he has a strong sense of fullness in his abdomen, and sometimes he feels very painful. He often suffers from mistakes, indigestion, low fever and insomnia. We went to the Internet and found that this is very similar to the symptoms of pancreatic cancer. Now let's learn about the symptoms of pancreatic cancer.

What are the symptoms of pancreatic cancer

First: epigastric fullness and discomfort, epigastric pain, is the earliest symptom. Due to pancreatic duct obstruction, the pressure of pancreatic duct is increased, even the small pancreatic duct is ruptured, and the pancreatic juice overflows to the pancreatic tissue, showing chronic inflammation. Therefore, the upper abdomen is full and uncomfortable or the upper abdomen is painful, and radiates to the shoulder back or lumbar rib. Most of the patients with carcinoma of the head of pancreas have upper abdominal fullness or increased abdominal pain after eating, while the patients with carcinoma of the body and tail of pancreas often have advanced abdominal pain, and the abdominal pain is in the left upper abdomen or around the umbilicus. Advanced pancreatic cancer is characterized by persistent epigastric pain and low back pain. Abdominal pain is usually severe and affects sleep and diet day and night. This pain is caused by cancer invading retroperitoneal nerve tissue.

Second: gastrointestinal symptoms, early abdominal fullness, loss of appetite, indigestion. Diarrhea can occur. After diarrhea, upper abdominal fullness does not disappear, late anorexia, nausea and vomiting, hematemesis or black stool, often caused by tumor infiltration or compression of stomach and duodenum. Jaundice is the main symptom of pancreatic cancer, especially pancreatic head cancer, which is close to the common bile duct and causes obstructive jaundice. Generally progressive aggravation, urine was reddish brown, stool was clay color, skin itching. The liver and gallbladder are swollen due to cholestasis. The gallbladder is often palpable, with bleeding tendency and abnormal liver function.

Third: other, most patients have low fever, fatigue, emaciation. Because of abdominal pain, patients can not sleep at night, lack of sleep, fatigue. In the late stage, the mass was palpable in the upper abdomen, hard and fixed. After the ascites formed, the abdomen expanded. High fever may occur in patients with biliary tract infection. Finally, cachexia and metastatic carcinoma of liver, lung and bone appeared.

matters needing attention

Patients with pancreatic cancer will have upper abdominal pain or fullness, backache, indigestion, nausea and vomiting, fatigue, emaciation, insomnia and so on. Patients with these symptoms must pay special attention to go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis as soon as possible, and receive timely treatment.