Understanding Cancer Series: What are the Signs and Symptoms of Cancer? Part 1

What are signs and symptoms? Signs and symptoms are what doctors use in figuring out what could possibly be wrong with a patient.  When patients go to doctors, they often report changes that they or other people have noticed about them by telling their story.  We call this process history taking and more than laboratory tests,...

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I’m Afraid of Pain!!!

Mr. A middle aged man who is diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer (his cancer has transferred or metastasized already to his bones) came to my clinic.  He was very unpleasant, did not smile at all, had a stooped posture, hair unkempt and clothes crumpled.  The first thing he said to me when he sat down was this:  “Doctor, I want...

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