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Last Updated on January 7, 2021
Cancer: Causes, Symptoms, and Prevention
2. General signs of cancer:
© wiseGEEKCancers can cause many different symptoms depending on their location. Nevertheless, some signs are common to almost all cancers. These are general symptoms that need to be alerted. Indeed, when symptoms of this type appear, it is generally that the cancer is already at an advanced stage, hence the importance of the prevention of cancers.
In general, cancers will have an impact on:
– Energy and strength, which often results in decreased physical capacity, intense fatigue, and unexplained reactivity.
– Diet, with rapid weight loss first without any particular modification of his eating habits then, subsequently, due to loss of appetite.
– Respiration, patients with respiratory cancer often noisily, the person being too weak to be able to cough and expel what disturbs him.
– Recurrent and particularly violent headaches, as well as other pains depending on the location of cancer (bone pain in the event of bone damage, for example).
– Lymph nodes that are often swollen, especially in the neck, armpits, and groin.
The signs of cancer that have just been mentioned are often only too late, that is to say when the cancer is already well established. It is therefore essential to be able to identify the small signs, which are not very significant in appearance but which may be of great importance. Indeed, they can announce an onset of cancer.
If the subject is promptly consulted by a physician and the diagnosis is made early, these signs can avoid many complications and make the prognosis much more favorable. Read more about 10 Cancer Symptoms That Not Everyone Knows.
