Diabetes
Some people diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas are found to be newly diabetic sufferer. Some have been diagnosed with diabetes within the previous year. If you have diabetes, then it means you are not producing enough insulin. So there is too much sugar in your blood. The sugar is passed out of the body in the urine and takes a great deal of water with it in the process. This causes thirst; passing a lot of urine; weakness and weight loss and hunger because the sugars and starches you eat are being wasted in the urine
You may also experience itching if you have bad jaundice. The bile salts in the bloodstream cause the itching in the skin.
You may feel or be feeling sick because you have jaundice or an inflamed pancreas. Both these conditions upset the natural chemical balance of the body, which can make you sick. You may also be sick if the cancer, or inflammation around it, is beginning to block the duodenum. This will stop digested food from passing through to the small bowel.
If you suffer from jaundice you may also develop a symptom called steatorrhoea. This means fatty stools. You may pass frequent, large bowel motions that are pale coloured and smelly. These bowel disturbances can mean that you are not absorbing your food properly. So this may be the root cause of huge weight loss.
Fever and shivering - You may have a high temperature from time to time because of the jaundice or the inflamed pancreas.
These are symptoms of pancreatic cancer. Do get a body check up done soonest if you have any of the above symptoms.
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