Cancer Treatment: Tips for Early Detection of Cancer

Early detection of cancer is vital to its successful treatment. In order to do so, there are some symptoms and some risk factors which if present in a patient should arouse the suspicion of the disease. He should then consult urgently his physician or a specialist. The symptoms and risk factors are as follows:

Symptoms

Bleeding: Bleeding after slight injury; vomit mixed with blood; non-injury bleeding from the surface of the skin, mouth or any other bodily orifice or opening; blood in the stool; bleeding per vagina other than menstrual one or after the sexual act or vaginal discharge mixed with blood; phlegm containing blood: blood in urine, continued bleeding after delivery; bleeding from a mole or what looks like a mole, etc.

A Lump or Hard Area: Lump in the abdomen which is found out to be the spleen; a lump in the thyroid; a lump in the inner lining of the lip; lump in the neck; a lump or nodule in the breast; a lump in the muscle; a lump in the arm; a lump in the leg, etc.

Raised Birthmark: Sudden growth in a mole, or birthmark; bleeding from a mole, or what it looks like a mole; formation of a new moles, around an old one, etc.

A Hard base Chronic Sore That Does Not Heal: Particularly if located on the penis or inside of the penis that covers the glans.

Constipation: More so if alternating with loose motions.

Pain and Tender Swelling of the Bone and the Tissue Around it: It may involve bone to break it without much of an injury; continuous and increasing pain over a bone, etc

Loss of Weight: Weight loss without any visible cause especially among adults, in spite of good appetite and intake of nourishing food items.

Diminished Appetite: Diminished appetite or loss of appetite and aversion to taking food.

Feeling of Tiredness: It may be without any apparent reason or accompanied by low-grade fever and increasing weakness, and anemia.

Painless/Painful Swellings: It is different from nodular swellings or a lump—such swellings can be often on one side of the neck or the abdomen; painless swelling with a hard base in the cheek; discomfort or pain sometimes severe in the upper abdomen; enlarged and painful testes, etc.

Difficulty in Swallowing: Difficulty in swallowing solid or semi-solid food or vomiting of food that has been taken lately, sometimes mixed with blood.

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