Pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is a rare disease.
Symptoms of pancreatic cancer
The symptom often do not appear until the disease is in advance stage. When pancreatic cancer symptoms do appear, they can be non-specific, such as stomach pain and weight loss. The pancreas is located behind the stomach, lever, spleen, gallbladder and small intestine. cancer has generally grown outside the pancreas.
symptoms are
1-weight loss jaundice ,
2-yellow skin
3- fat in the stool, with or without abdominal pain.
It usually occurs on the upper abdomen and may even radiate to the back.
Abdominal pain
Abdominal pain may worsen when lying down . It causes belly pain and weight loss. losing weight indicate something is wrong and it is a common symptom of pancreatic cancer and is one of the first symptoms experienced along with abdominal pain.
vomiting
vomiting is another symptom of pancreatic cancer,loss of appetite can signal some thing serve or even be related to some thing as small as a stomach virus.
Itchy skin
Itchy skin is a less common symptom of it but when coupled with another symptom like abdominal pain or jaundice, it can be significant in making more accurate diagnoses.
Change in stool and urine color
Change in stool and urine color is another symptom of pancreatic cancer.It reduces the pancreas ability to secret fat-digesting enzymes.So there is more fattens up in the stool .These fatty stools can be strange, smelling and float more than normal.
Causes of pancreatic cancer
It occurs when in increased level of bilirubin is in the blood and when a tumor completely or partially blocks bile ducts , slowing the flow of bile.