When a patient attends a doctor with a complaint , the things that the patient actually complains of are called 'symptoms'. If the doctor, on examining the patients should find any abnormalities, then these are called 'signs' Many completely different illnesses have similar symptoms. This point is important to bear in mind for it means that one cannot say that a particular illness is characterized by particular symptoms. It is just as likely that these symptoms could occur in other conditions. In the following account of various types of cancer the fact that a person may have the symptoms described does not in any way,mean that he or she is suffering from that condition. Sometimes it is suggested that the person suffering from certain symptoms should seek medical advice. This does not mean a definite or even probable diagnosis of malignancy, but merely that measures should be taken to investigate them more fully.
If a doctor studies a large number of patients suffering from a particular disorder he may find certain trends. The majority of patients would obey such a trend, and a minority would prove the exception . For instance the majority of cancer patients are elderly or middle-aged.
An account of the symptoms and signs of some of the different types of cancer follows.
1. Brast
2. Lung
3. Cervix
4.Stomach
5. Intestine
6. Brain
7. Kidney and Bladder
8. Testicle
9. Hodgkins Disease
10. Larynx
11. Skin
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