Advanced pancreatic cancer symptoms

Pancreatic cancer can be quite advanced when it is first diagnosed. This is because early cancer of the pancreas often doesn’t cause symptoms. Someone may not have had any symptoms when the cancer was in developed stages. Or you had may have been vague and difficult to spot.

Advanced pancreatic cancer means the cancer may have spread from where it started, or come back some time after you were first treated. It can be divided into,

Locally advanced

In this stage, the pancreatic cancer most often spreads into nearby tissue such as bile duct or small bowel, lymph nodes, or the stomach, and not spread to organs further away in the body.

Metastatic

In this stage, the cancer has spread through the lymphatic system or the bloodstream, to organs further away in the body. The most common place for it to spread to is the liver, but it could spread to the lungs, the bones, the lining of the bowel or abdomen, or somewhere else.