Natural Cancer Treatment Centers

Symptoms of Pancreatic Cancer are quite varied and depend on where the cancer is located, where it has spread, and how big the tumor is. Pancreatic cancer is often called the hidden disease, as it rarely shows symptoms early but non-specific symptoms in the future.

Pancreatic tumors are usually too small to cause symptoms. However, while growing into cancer can raise symptoms as below:
- Pain in the upper abdomen from the tumor pushing into nerves
- Jaundice of the skin and eyes and a change in color of urine becomes dark, disturbing created when bile duct cancer and liver
- Loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting
- Significant weight loss and weakness
- Pale stool color or gray and steatorrhea (excess fat in the stool)


The symptoms of pancreatic cancer has many other causes, so difficult to diagnose the disease before it is in an advanced stage.

Pancreatic cancer is also associated with Trousseau's sign (blood clots that form spontaneously in the portal vein, the blood vessels in the arms and legs). Clinical depression is another symptom that is sometimes reported before cancer was diagnosed.

If the cancer spreads or metastasizes, additional symptoms can present themselves in the newly affected areas. Symptoms of metastasis ultimately depend on the location of where the cancer has spread.

Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer

There are several techniques to see whether cancer exists and to know how far it has spread. Common tests include:

- Ultrasound: To visualize tumor
- Endoscope ultrasound (EUS): a thin tube with a camera and light at one end
- CT scan of the abdomen: To visualize tumor
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP): X-ray bile ducts
- Angiogram: X-ray of blood vessels
- Barium swallow X-ray upper gastrointestinal tract
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): To visualize tumor
- Positron emission tomography (PET) scan: Useful to detect
if the disease has spread

natural cancer treatment centers