Three symptoms suddenly appear in the body, it may not only be so simple as a stomach problem, beware of pancreatic cancer
I don't know when "cancer" started, and it has completely entered the outbreak stage. According to statistics, there are more than 1.6 million new cancer patients in China every year, and as many as 1.2 million patients die each year due to cancer. The current high-incidence types of cancer include lung cancer, digestive tract cancer, and liver cancer. Wait, this is also the type that ranks high on the cancer rankings.
In addition, there is a type of cancer with a low incidence but a very high mortality rate, which is clinically called "pancreatic cancer"! As the name suggests, this type of cancer is a cancer that appears on the pancreas. According to clinical data, the survival rate of pancreatic cancer is extremely low. The survival rate within five years is only 5%. In advanced pancreatic cancer, the survival rate is almost zero. %!
More than 60% of pancreatic cancer patients are misdiagnosed as stomach problems at an early stage. Obviously they are two different organs, why is the misdiagnosis rate so high?
This is mainly related to the function of the pancreas itself. The pancreas is a small flower with internal and external secretions. The insulin and digestive enzymes secreted by the pancreas are indispensable ingredients for balancing blood sugar and digesting food. This includes starches, fats, etc., which are all done by digestive enzymes, so in the early stage of pancreatic cancer, patients may have different degrees of digestive disorders. This includes indigestion, nausea and vomiting, belching, diarrhea, etc.;
In addition, pancreatic cancer has still not been able to find sensitive and specific tumor markers, and it cannot be observed through gastroenteroscopy like gastric cancer and intestinal cancer, so early detection is very difficult. Moreover, some pancreatic cancer patients do have chronic gastric diseases, and the symptoms of the two are easily confused, which is also the reason for the high misdiagnosis rate.
However, if the following three symptoms suddenly appear in the body, it may be more than just a stomach problem:
- Significant weight loss
Although chronic stomach problems can reduce their own digestive capacity, patients do not lose weight rapidly in a short period of time, and cancer is not the same. Nearly 90% of pancreatic cancer patients will be accompanied by obvious weight loss during the development of the disease, and even lose more than ten kilograms in a short period of time. This is mainly because the energy consumption will be generated when the cancer develops, and the secretion of digestive enzymes will be destroyed by the cancer, and the patient will have different degrees of absorption disorders, resulting in rapid weight loss.
- Jaundice symptoms
In some pancreatic cancer patients, abnormal digestion is accompanied by "jaundice" symptoms. In particular, cancerous changes in the pancreatic head can be accompanied by different degrees of jaundice in the early stage, and most of them are obstructive jaundice. The main factor is that the development of cancer compresses the common bile duct, resulting in obstruction of bile excretion. The influx of bilirubin into the blood will cause yellowing of the sclera, yellowing of the skin, and changes in the color of urine and urine. This is obviously different from chronic stomach disease, and it is also a symptom that is easy to distinguish.
- Sudden rise in blood sugar
Clinically, pancreatic cancer patients tend to have varying degrees of unprovoked diabetes responses, while chronic gastric disease patients do not have symptoms of elevated blood sugar. The reason why pancreatic cancer has elevated blood sugar is mainly because the cancer destroys the patient's pancreatic islet function, thereby reducing the body's ability to metabolize and utilize glucose, thereby inducing diabetes. If the age is more than 50 years old, and there is a sudden unprovoked increase in blood sugar, a high suspicion of pancreatic disease is necessary.
If pancreatic cancer can be detected at an early stage and treated aggressively, the later-stage survival rate will also increase. Therefore, everyone must not ignore any physical abnormalities. After symptoms similar to stomach problems, you should actively check to determine whether it is a gastrointestinal disease. After ruling out the possibility of gastrointestinal diseases, you should highly suspect pancreatic malignant transformation!