General Obvious Cancer Symptoms

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.

What Is Cancer?

Cancer is one of diseases which is most people must fear of. It is because the disease is very dangerous. Your life is at stake when you are infected by cancer. Even though in reality the disease is curable, because of the danger it poses to one's life, some said that it is not curable.

So, what is cancer? We believe this is the question you are now having in mind. You may have heard the term so many times. Your teacher from elementary school to university may have also mentioned it. But we also believe that it is very likely that you have not known enough about cancer. That is why here we are going to discuss about cancer as cleas and short as we can.

Well, as you must have known, cancer is a term used to refer to a disease. Yes, it is clear now that cancer is a disease. What kind of disease? That must be your next question. It is a disease which attacks our cells. Cancer takes place or is identified when a group of cells display uncontrolled growth which can intrudes and destroys adjacent tissues, and often metastasizes (the tumor cells spread to other locations in the body via the lympathic system or through the bloodstream.

The uncontrollable growth of cells which destroys the tissues can, of course, finally interfere normal organ functions. Not only this will lead to the pain or misery that the sufferer must suffer, in the long term the uncontrollable growth can kill the sufferer when it take over part of the body that carries out an essential function. For example, if a cancer is growing in part of digestive system, it can prevent the digestion and absorption of food. It can block the digestie system so that food cannot go through the intestines. If food cannot pass through, then nutrients from the food can't be absorbed.

That is what cancer really is.