Cancer is a disease. There are over 200 different types of cancer that humans get.
If you have any of the common symptoms of cancer, you need to see your doctor immediately and get tested and diagnosed.
The earlier that cancer is diagnosed, the sooner treatment can begin.
What are the Common Symptoms of Cancer?
1. Losing weight at a rapid rate (without being on a diet), gas, discomfort, digestive disorders, anorexia, recurring diarrhea, and constipation are the symptoms occurring most frequently in cases of lung, stomach, kidney, and large intestine cancer.
2. A pain of unknown causes, and a long-lasting stomachache can be the symptom of large intestinal cancer.
Low back pain can be a sign of kidney cancer. Pain in the chest can result from lung cancer.
Bone aches can be caused by metastasis.
3. Hemoptysis (coughing up blood), long-lasting hoarseness, persistent cough, or change of its character can be caused by lung or laryngeal cancer.
4. Changes in the color of moles and warts, ulceration and itching, and ulceration of open wounds, burns, and scalds can be the signs of skin cancer.
5. Excessive production of urine, the backlog of urine, painful urinating, slow flow of urine, as well as backache can be signs of prostate cancer.
6. Pain, vertigo, nausea, sight distortions (over-sensitized sight, astigmatism), hearing impediment, balance issues, and mental disorders can result from brain cancer.
7. Swallowing difficulties can be a symptom of throat, laryngeal, esophageal, and stomach cancer.
8. Feeling fullness in the epigastrium, aches, and digestive disorders may be due to stomach cancer and other kinds of gastrointestinal cancer, and sometimes ovarian cancer.
9. Black feces, blood in feces, alternating diarrhea and constipation, mucus in feces, and narrow (pencil-like) feces are the symptoms of gastrointestinal cancer, especially of the large intestine and/or the rectum.
10. Blood in the urine (without the symptoms of urinary tract inflammation), and dysuria (compulsive urination, difficulties in urination) can be present in bladder cancer.
11. Improper bleeding from the genitals, and pink or dark-red vaginal discharges, can be the signs of vaginal, uterine, or cervical cancer.
12. Marks on the skin and mucous membrane, ulcerations that do not heal, change in appearance or occurrence of new skin marks of some specific features (irregular distribution of pigment, the vague line between the mark and healthy skin, the quick growth of the marks, bleeding, dripping) can be signs of skin cancer.
13. Breast tumor (approximately 15% – 25% can be impalpable), ulceration, retraction of a nipple, asymmetrical nipples, change in size or the shape of a nipple, swelling and the marks around it, enlargement of lymphatic glands in the armpit, an extension of veins in the breast, ulceration of breast skin, and shoulder swelling, are often the symptoms of breast cancer.
14. Fever, tiredness, bone, and joint aches, temporary anemia and bleeding, an impalpable tumor of the abdominal cavity, as a result of an enlarged spleen that can be detected in the gastro-bowel test.
15. Pain and pressure in the upper right part of the stomach, tiredness, anorexia, and at a further stage of the disease a palpable tumor in the upper right part of the stomach, jaundice, and bleeding can be the signs of liver cancer.
These are three videos that deal with the disease of Cancer.
Video 1 Explains what is Cancer.
Video 2 Discusses how Cancer starts in the body.
Video 3 Explains Why So Many People Get Cancer
What is Cancer?
How Does Cancer Start?
Why Do So Many People Get Cancer?
