Suffering from Cancer is one thing many people afraid of. If positively infected, they will take any cancer medicine. Whatever it is. That is how fearsome the disease called cancer. And so, in this article we will list and explain some general cancer symptoms usually found to those positive cancer sufferers.
Basically, there are three kinds of cancer symptoms: local, metastatic, and systemic symptoms. Each of these will be explained below.
Local symptoms are the symptoms which are found and restricted to the site of the primary cancer. Metastatic symptoms, however, are the symptoms which are caused by the spread of cancer to other locations in the body. Meanwhile, systemic symptoms are those which occur due to distant effect ot the cancer that are not related to direct or metastatic spread.
Those local, metastatic, and systemic symptoms can be found in the following more specific symptoms:
- A lump somewhere on your body
- Changes in a mole on your skin
- A cough or hoarseness that won't go away
- A change in bowel habits
- Difficulty in swallowing or continuing indegestion
- Any abnormal bleeding
- A sore or ulcer that won't heal
- Difficulty in passing urine
- Unexplained weight loss
- Unexplained pain
- Feeling very tired all the time
- Skin changes
- Unexplained night sweat
Even though the above can be caused by other less serious illnesses, if you find them in your body it's better to see doctor.
