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Is it pancreatic cancer—or something much less serious? Find out why the symptoms of pancreatic cancer are sometimes mistaken for a more common ailment by watching this video featuring cancer specialist Deborah Axelrod, M.D.
Pancreatic cancer is usually a cancer that goes undetected, it can present with back pain because the pancreas sits in the back and can invade some of the structures around that area, into the muscles, into the nerves and into other organs and so back pain that persists, that escalates, that is not relieved by anti-inflammatory medication is an indication to see your physician pancreatic cancer can present depending on where it occurs in the pancreas, if it occurs towards the head of the pancreas, it can present a painless jondes yellowing of the skin, of the sclera or the white part of the eyes, it can present with greasy stools, it can present as indigestion or diarrhea or pale colored stool.
And again, back pain is also a symptom that we worry about, if it persists and if it's not really by anti inflammatory medication.
Deborah Axelrod, MD is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She completed a surgical oncology research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, is widely published in her field and has been in practice since 1988.
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