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Layman's Guide to Cancer - Part 2 Cancer Symptoms

Cancer can cause a wide spectrum of symptoms or they may be completely asymptomatic until the disease has advanced to an advanced stage. It is important to note that the symptoms associated with cancer but also in other diseases as well as can be seen, for which a remedy is available. Thus it is important to recognize the symptoms and find out the cause of the symptoms through examination, investigations and tests. The early recognition of symptoms and treatment can lead to a favorable outcome in manyCancer. Some of the frequently occurring symptoms are discussed below.



Unexplained weight loss
Unexplained weight loss may be an underlying cancer.But Weight loss can also with many chronic diseases such as tuberculosis, diabetes and many other medical conditions.Hence connected, it is necessary to search for other causes of weight loss prior to the suspected cancer
Swelling throughout the body
Some cancers such as breast --Cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid cancer present as swelling. Most of the time, the swellings are not cancerous and can be easily treated. Some of the swelling is actually a secondary cancer in a different place.
Change in bowel habits
Difficulty in passing stools, constipation, diarrhea, change in caliber of stools, blood in the stool and feeling of incomplete evacuation of stools after defecation (tenesmus) are just some of the symptoms usually associated with colon cancer.
Swallowing
Even as such as dysphagia is a symptom frequently encountered cases of upper gastrointestinal cancer (eg, esophageal cancer).
Unusual vaginal bleeding or discharge
Unusual vaginal bleeding or discharge may be an early symptom of uterine or cervical cancer cancer.Excessive vaginal bleeding may be associated with many other conditions such as menorrhagia, the fibroid uterus.Situations> Deserve careful scrutiny have bleeding in between periods, bleeding after menopause, unless expected HRT (hormone replacement therapy), bleeding after sexual intercourse and bleeding, the more prolonged and severe than expected.
Non-healing wounds
Usually wounds heal quickly, but some wounds do not heal with conventional treatment and careful evaluation as the merit of some cancers present as non-healing wounds.
Hoarseness of voice
Hoarseness of the voice is usually a symptom of infection of the respiratory tract and vocal cord polyps. But persistent hoarseness of voice for a greater duration.> 3-4 weeks, and hoarseness not on airway may, on an underlying cancer. Hoarseness of voice for cancer of the larynx can be due to compression by tumor or due to cancer, the nerves supplying the muscles of the vocal cords.
Unexplained anemia
Anemia, fatigue, and manifests asFatigue can and can not be attributed to a common cause of an underlying cancer.This is a feature of colorectal cancer when the cancer tissue leads to loss of blood, bleeding and anemia. Most of the time the bleeding is not visible to the eye and they say occult blood loss.Any elderly person with unexplained anemia should be advised to undergo a comprehensive X-ray examination of the large intestine to rule out cancer



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