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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Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

Cancer that begins in the ovaries or the fallopian tubes is called ovarian cancer. The risk of ovarian cancer increases with age. More than 50% of deaths due to ovarian caner occur in women between 55 and 74, and about 25% in women between 35 and 54; Ovarian cancer has been called "silent killer" in medical textbooks because there are no symptoms until a considerably advanced stage of disease. Recent studies show that if there are no symptomsCharacteristic with ovarian cancer, the following warning signs appear a few months before the cancer is detected:

Pelvic, abdominal or back pain

Weight gain or weight loss

Unusual bleeding or discharge (heavy menstrual bleeding or postmenopausal)

Discomfort during sex

Frequent or intense urge to urinate, burning during urination or cramps

Feeling full, even though you do not eat much

Vague gastrointestinal problems,such as gas, indigestion, anorexia, flatulence, nausea and vomiting, bloody stools, prolonged constipation or diarrhea

Unexplained elevations of waist

Shortness of breath

Fatigue

If any of these symptoms over two or three weeks, and if it is even worse with time, you should test for ovarian cancer. Since these symptoms may be another disease or minor suffering associated, it is impossible to diagnose ovarian cancer on theirMerit alone. The doctor is a gynecological examination, perform an abdominal or vaginal ultrasound and a blood test to check the presence of CA 125. None of these tests are consistent. But a positive focus on two or more of the tests should be increased by biopsy (laparotomy) or be followed by a laparoscopy to rule out or diagnose ovarian cancer.

A very small percentage of women who are diagnosed with the symptoms of the dreaded disease. And sometimes, achieving women in the pastStages of cancer with no symptoms. The best thing you can do is get a healthy lifestyle and to undergo an annual inspection in order to catch the cancer before it metastasizes.

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