Cancer Symptoms

While all cancers are different, and all patients perceive illness at individual levels, most cancers share common, potential symptoms. Here’s a list of some symptoms that you should point out to your doctor if they persist:

• Fever
• Drenching night sweats (like you wake up and your sheets and mattress are soaked through.)
• Recurrent headaches
• Loss of a normal, pinkish hew to the face and hands.
• Sweating when drinking caffeine
• Dry, persistent cough
• Shortness of breath
• Coughing up blood
• Swollen lymph nodes
• Lumps in the breasts or other lymph nodes
• General feeling that “something is wrong with me.” (Assuming you’re not a hypochondriac)
• Extreme sensitivity to light
• Ongoing cramps or pain in your belly.
• Ongoing pain in your pelvis or lower back
• Nausea or loss of appetite, or you cannot eat normally
• Ongoing bloating or intestinal gas
• Sudden, unexplained weight loss
• Clumsiness
• Difficulty walking
• Seizures
• a frequent need to urinate, especially at night
• difficulty starting or stopping the urinary stream
• any change in size, shape, or color of a mole or other skin growth, such as a birthmark