Oncology is one of the most difficult areas of medicine. The immediate causes of most cancers are unknown, and the symptoms are nonspecific (that is, the same symptom can occur in different tumors). So, if the patient is pestered by pain in the upper abdomen, then this may be a sign of a neoplasm in the stomach, pancreas, and intestines.
As for the pancreas, its malignant tumors are a real scourge for medicine. In addition to abdominal pain, patients with this diagnosis may also be disturbed by nausea, vomiting, flatulence (bloating), and diarrhea. But this is a typical set of symptoms for different diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, so it will not be possible to easily identify pancreatic cancer using it. To facilitate the diagnostic process for clinicians, scientists (and the doctors themselves) scrupulously study the histories of patients with this disease, find out the nuances of its course. Even the smallest details can play a huge role in differential diagnosis - a process during which, with the same symptoms of different diseases, they try to make an accurate diagnosis.
It seemed that all possible symptoms of pancreatic cancer (albeit nonspecific) have long been studied. But scientists from the UK examined patients with a symptom that had not previously been addressed. attention, although, as it turned out, most likely indicated the occurrence of pancreatic cancer glands. This is wave-like back or abdominal pain.
Pancreatic cancer is considered one of the most problematic diseases of modern oncology. Very often it is detected only in case of complications or in a neglected state - that is, under circumstances when the treatment may already be ineffective. Undulating pain just indicates the possibility of the development of this pathology. The following nuances are also important: an increase in pain after eating and if the patient is in the supine position. The researchers also clarify: a characteristic of the pain syndrome in this disease is that it decreases when the body bends, and then it can completely subside.
The combination of the described symptom with nausea, vomiting, flatulence and diarrhea should cause even greater suspicion that the patient has pancreatic cancer.
In the later stages, symptoms of body poisoning appear. The reason is that the waste products and decay of cancer cells enter the bloodstream and are carried throughout the body. There are signs of a violation of the general condition of the patient - an increase in body temperature, general weakness, malaise, a significant deterioration in working capacity (physical and mental).
If pancreatic cancer is not detected in a timely manner, its complications may arise, and this will accelerate the deterioration of the patient's condition and the onset of his death. The most common complications are metastasis, cancer invasion into adjacent organs, cancerous cachexia (extreme exhaustion of the patient, when his condition can be described as "skin and bones") - because of them, a person and dies.
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