Signs & Symptoms

Pancreatic Cancer

• Asymptomatic.
• Nausea and vomiting.
• Chills and fevers.
• Weight loss, anorexia, cachexia.
• Loss of appetite.
• Eating a small amount but feeling full.
• Alterations in bowel habits, including diarrhea, constipation, bloating, and gas.
• Epigastric or flank pain: most common for body and tail tumors.
• Steatorrhea: excessive amounts of fats in stool.
• Difficulty digesting fatty foods.
• Gradual loss of more than 10 percent of body weight.
• Jaundice: yellowing of the skin and eyes due to biliary obstruction; 75 % of cases.
• Pruritis: itching of skin caused by biliary obstruction.
• Gastrointestinal bleeding: from tumors in head of pancreas.
• Bloating and flatulence.
• Swollen legs.
• Sudden attack of pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreas.
• Onset of diabetes mellitus: endocrine tumors of pancreas

Liver Cancer

• Weight loss.
• Weakness.
• Unexplained fever and nausea.
• Hepatitis: inflammation of liver.
• Discomfort on right side of upper abdomen.
• A lump below the ribs on the right side.
• Pain around the right shoulder blade.
• Lack of apppetite.
• Abdominal swelling.
• Generalized abdominal pain.
• Bloated feeling.
• Jaundice: yellowing of the skin and eyes due to biliary obstruction.
• Ascites, accumulation of fluid in the abdomen.

Gallbladder and Bile Duct Cancers

• Jaundice.
• A lump in upper right part of the abdomen.
• Fever.
• Nausea.
• Weight loss.
• Upper abdominal discomfort.
• Itching.
• Abdominal pain and swelling.
• Dark-colored urine.