What are the symptoms of early onset of pancreatic cancer?

If pancreatic cancer can be found early, it will be of great help to the treatment of the disease. In the early stage of pancreatic cancer, patients will have upper abdominal pain, jaundice, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, abdominal mass and other symptoms. Once the above symptoms are found, we must be vigilant and actively check and treat them.

Pancreatic cancer has a high degree of malignancy, poor prognosis and atypical early symptoms. Once discovered, the best treatment opportunity has been lost. Even so, early detection of pancreatic cancer is not impossible. In the early stage of pancreatic cancer, patients will have some signs. Once found, we should actively go to the hospital for examination. What are the early symptoms of pancreatic cancer?

What are the early symptoms of pancreatic cancer?

1. Upper abdominal pain

Patients with early pancreatic cancer will have pain in the upper abdomen and lower part, and the pain is not obvious, and most of them are dull pain. Pancreatic cancer can lead to bile duct or pancreatic duct obstruction. As the pressure in the bile duct increases, the bile duct and gallbladder expand to varying degrees, so patients will feel abdominal discomfort and dull pain.

2. Prejudice

The more important symptom of pancreatic cancer patients, especially those with pancreatic head cancer, is jaundice. Jaundice is accompanied by dark yellow urine and clay-like stool symptoms, which is caused by the invasion or oppression of the lower end of the common bile duct of the patient.

3. Nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite

Both pancreatic juice secreted by the pancreas and bile secreted by the liver can help the human body digest food, but if you have pancreatic cancer, the excretion of pancreas and bile will be affected, which will affect the digestion and absorption of food, affect the appetite of patients and lead to a significant weight loss.

4. Abdominal mass

Besides obstructive jaundice, pancreatic head cancer can also cause gallbladder enlargement, and the right upper abdomen of the patient can be palpated clearly. Patients with advanced pancreatic cancer can have a fixed mass in the upper abdomen.

Second, how to treat pancreatic cancer

For pancreatic cancer, surgery is the main treatment at present, but many patients can't undergo radical resection because they are in the middle and advanced stage, so they can only choose radiotherapy. Radiotherapy may have strong side effects on patients, such as leukopenia, bone marrow suppression and decreased immunity. However, the side effects can be alleviated by supplementing trace element selenium. However, the effect of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer is not ideal, and patients often cannot tolerate systematic chemotherapy, which is rarely used in clinic.