What symptom does pancreatic cancer relapse have

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A few years ago, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but he didn't abandon himself. He took the initiative to treat the disease, and finally brought the disease under control. But recently, he felt some discomfort. He went to the hospital to have a review, and the result was that pancreatic cancer recurred. Now let me talk about the symptoms of pancreatic cancer recurrence.

What symptom does pancreatic cancer relapse have

First, abdominal pain is an early symptom of pancreatic cancer, which is more common in pancreatic body and tail cancer. It is located in the upper abdomen, periumbilical or right upper abdomen. The nature of abdominal pain is colic, paroxysmal or persistent, progressive aggravating dull pain, mostly radiating to the waist and back, aggravating in lying position and at night, and relieving pain when sitting, standing, leaning forward or walking.

Second: jaundice may occur at a certain stage of the course of disease. Generally, jaundice is more common in pancreatic head cancer, and occurs earlier. When the cancer is limited to the body and tail, there is no jaundice. Jaundice is mostly obstructive, showing progressive deepening, accompanied by skin itching, urine color such as tea, feces into clay color. Most of them are caused by the compression of the common bile duct by the carcinoma of the head of pancreas, and a few are caused by the metastasis of the carcinoma of the body and tail of pancreas to the intrahepatic or hepatic / common bile duct lymph nodes.

Third: about 90% of the patients have rapid and significant weight loss, which is often accompanied by cachexia in the advanced stage of pancreatic cancer. Causes of weight loss include consumption of cancer, loss of appetite, anxiety, insomnia, digestive and absorptive disorders, etc. Fatigue and loss of appetite are very common, accompanied by diarrhea, constipation, abdominal distension, nausea and other gastrointestinal symptoms. Hyperglycemia and steatosis may occur in some cases. Do not like fatty dishes, there will be fatty diarrhea, this is not digested fat, and feces mixed, excreted diarrhea symptoms.

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After the disease is controlled, many patients will take it lightly and feel that they have recovered and need not worry. In fact, the possibility of recurrence of pancreatic cancer is still very high, so it is better for patients to go to the hospital regularly and have a review, so that they can be more safe.