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Sign cancer
 
The signs of cancer are sometimes hard to find because often trivial. Headache, severe fatigue, a cough are symptoms that can easily go unnoticed. Yet when they persist, and a fortiori, accumulate, they must be taken seriously and be the subject of a medical consultation.

General signs of cancer
Cancers can cause many different symptoms depending on their location. However, some signs are common to almost all cancers. This is general symptoms that should alert. Indeed, when such symptoms appear, it is usually the cancer is already at a stage advanced, where the importance of the prevention of cancers.

Generally, cancers are going to have an impact on:

energy and strength, which often results in reduced physical abilities, an intense fatigue and a lack of reactivity unexplained;
the power supply, with a fast weight loss first of all without particular change of eating habits then, subsequently, due to loss of appetite;
respiration, patients with cancer often breathing heavily, the person being too weak to cough and expelling what bothers her;
a headache recurring and particularly violent, as well as other pain depending on the location of cancer (bone pain in the event of violations of the bones for example);
the lymph nodes that are often swollen, especially at the level of the neck, armpits and groin.
Cough

Spot the signs of cancer
Signs of cancer coming mentioned don't appear well often too late, that is when the cancer is already well installed. It is therefore essential to find the small signs, insignificant in appearance, but may have great importance. Indeed, they can announce a beginning of cancer. If the subject quickly consulted a doctor and the diagnosis is made early, these signs can avoid complications to the patient and make much more favorable prognosis.

How to diagnose cancer

Cancer: ENT signs
You'll do well to visit your doctor if you notice that:

your voice has changed tone or you suffer a suppression of voice for at least two weeks;
a small plaque or ulceration develops on your oral mucosa (or language) and that she would not spontaneously resolves after a few weeks.
more and more often you tend to "swallow wrong" or that you feel that food have regularly struggled to be swallowed (dysphagia);
have you been coughing for more than 15 days without improvement after treatment;
you cough up blood (hemoptysis) even in very small quantities.

Digestive signs of cancer
Digestive signs also need your attention:

Stomach pain to alert you if they are continuous and that they are accompanied by weight loss.
All disorders of intestinal transit may be signs of appeal:
constipation or diarrhea (and especially the alternation between the two) is healing after a few days of treatment and/or that it is accompanied by weight loss.
the presence of black or red blood in the stool (rectum). These bleeding differ from hemorrhoids by the fact that they are mixed with the stool and they are painless unlike hemorrhoids.
Generally, all fast and unexplained weight loss should alert you.
Hemorrhoids

Skin and urinary signs
In General, it is essential to consult a specialist for any persistent anomaly:

Any show blood in the urine (Hematuria) should consult a doctor or a urologist.
Similarly, the appearance of moles or change of aspects of some of them must lead to consult a dermatologist, especially if they are growing and their edges are irregular. Same thing in the case of a lump under the skin.
Swelling of lymph nodes whose volume does not decrease is a sign of major appeal.
Signs of cancer in women
Of course, small painless ball found in a breast should immediately consult an oncologist. Similarly, any bleeding between periods or in postmenopausal women (metrorrhagia) imposes a gynecological examination.