Because of pancreatic cancer rarely shows early symptoms and presents non-specific later symptoms, it is often called as a “silent” disease. At the early stage, tumors of the pancreas cancers are usually too small to cause well noticed symptoms.
The early pancreatic cancer symptoms can be quite vague and vary depending on the location of the cancer is in your pancreas. This condition making it hard to diagnose before it is in an advanced level.
Including to these early symptoms are nausea and vomiting, jaundice, loss of appetite, back pain and pain around the stomach.
There are other symptoms that you can have with cancer of the pancreas. Or you may develop them later. Not everyone has every symptom. But these non specific symptoms are common in pancreatic cancer. You may have any of these symptoms from before you are diagnosed,
1. Diabetes
Some people diagnosed with cancer have been diagnosed with diabetes within the previous year. If you have diabetes it means there is something wrong with your pancreas and it could be pancreatic cancer. It caused you pancreas are not producing enough insulin. So there is too much sugar in your blood.
2. Trousseau’s sign
Trousseau’s sign is a spontaneous blood clots formed in the portal blood vessels, deep veins of the legs and arms, or other superficial veins. This condition is sometimes associated with pancreatic cancer.
3. Itchy Skin
Itchy skin is a less common symptom of pancreatic cancer. Again, a vague symptom, but when coupled with jaundice or abdominal pain, it can be significant pancreatic cancer symptoms.
If the cancer metastasizes or spreads to other tissue, metastasizes pancreatic cancer symptoms can present themselves in the newly affected area. These symptoms ultimately depend on which tissue or organs the cancer has spread.
