Common symptoms in cancer

Cancers are common with specific complaints, each of specific cancers, such as bloody cough associated with lung cancer. Many patients, but also non-specific symptoms that can occur in many types of cancers in the same way. These symptoms may be side effects occur with other diseases (eg, cardiovascular system or lungs) or a mood disorder “temporary” in healthy volunteers. A person suffering from such symptoms should not necessarily think immediately of cancer. This is only a reliable diagnosis may help classify complaints properly. Anorexia: anorexia, decreased appetite or early satiety in patients with cancer and short term or long term. Occasionally it may also lead to an aversion to certain foods, like meat. The result was an interested party in such a “no appetite for weight loss phase. Weight Loss: Regardless of appetite and amount of daily calories come from many cancer patients who lose weight. The reason is that a growing tumor has a high energy demand. Therefore, part of the energy consumed in the food supply by the tumor and the body is no longer available. The agency must then, when food intake is not increased, rely on endogenous reserves. Typically this is the body that everyone in the large-scale storage or small in geological formations under the skin. If these fat reserves are depleted, the body uses the protein in the muscles and strengthens the muscles of this. The consequences of the consumption of fat and muscle proteins are weight loss, a “streamlining” the appearance and physical weakness. Weakness: A weakness is caused by cancer patients is often independent of weight loss. Or, feel weak, weak and less productive. Pressure or the efforts that were easily treated before the disease now appears to be very stressful and very difficult to overcome. Bread: In many cancer patients occurs. These are generally due the fact that the tumor grows moves the surrounding tissue to adjacent organs or press the nerves. The location of pain depends on the location of the tumor. It can also happen, what we call the pain increased. Pain will not be visible on its place of origin but in a different region of the body. This may be the case when a tumor presses on a nerve that for a certain region of the body “responsible” for the region. For example, pain can be seen in the hand, although a growing tumor in the cervical spine. There, he presses the spine is born of the root, to go with their nerve fibers in the hand. Fever: From time to time determined for a temperature increase of fever. But it is a rare phenomenon in general. Slightly more common in the environment may occur at specific types of cancer, for example), lymphoma (cancer of lymph nodes), leukemia (blood cancer progresses. Even if it is infected in the course of a broadening of liver cancer by “Daughter (metastasis) of tumor origin, there may be an increase in temperature. An increase in temperature may also occur if a tumor is divided, for example because it has size that no longer supply enough blood to die, so some parts of the tumor was achieved. We must not occur in a temperature increase is a sweat cancer patient can, that is be other reasons for the increase of temperature charge that the cancer itself neglected, for example, infectious diseases (flu, bladder infections, pneumonia).: even independent of elevated body temperature may occur Some patients, especially as night sweats and other symptoms. This is especially a specific type of tumor, lymphoma observed (lymphoma. itching: Sometimes patients complain of itching. This symptom occurs particularly in disease Hodgkin (a specific lymphatic cancer) and leukemia (blood cancer). But even there, there where the “girl of the liver tumors observed that symptoms of the disease. The reason is that most occur in the liver bile flow into the duodenum may be, as the “daughter of tumors,” so to speak, block the bile “the path.” Since the bile is continuously produced in the liver, but finding requires other means. They usually come first in the blood and the result of the disease process is deposited in the skin. the one hand, ensuring (a yellowish skin color “jaundice”) on the other hand itching occurs. All these symptoms “nonspecific” such as loss of appetite, low overall levels of physical, decreased performance, pain, increased body temperature or fever, sweating and itching can be very stressful, and daily activities can be significant limiting. important part of any cancer treatment is therefore more effective treatment of tumors. This can be done by drugs (to reduce pain and fever), with “physical measures (for example, cooling with cold packs), fever or by physical therapy to strengthen (eg exercise, circulation and muscles to generally weak.