• Question: Is there any visible symptoms for certain cancers?

    Asked by anon-328259 on 20 Jun 2022.
    • Photo: Karin Purshouse

      Karin Purshouse answered on 20 Jun 2022:

      Yes – symptoms depend on where the cancer is. So for example, a cancer growing in the breast will show as a lump, or in the bowels it might result in blood in poo. Some are more subtle – so for example, a cancer growing in the liver might lead to fatigue, low energy, and eventually might result in more liver-specific things like jaundice.
      It’s the cancers where symptoms appear late in the cancer biology that often are very advanced and hard to treat. Pancreatic and brain cancers are two such examples.

    • Photo: Timothy Budden

      Timothy Budden answered on 1 Jul 2022:

      One cancer that is visible is skin cancer because it grows on our skin we can see it, unlike those that grow in our internal organs. Skin cancer can appear in a variety of shapes and sizes depending on the type. For example melanoma can sometimes be hard to tell apart from a normal mole (although they are a lot rarer), but there are signs that can help such as asymmetry, irregular borders, change in size over time and different colours. It is always good to get anything of concern checked by a doctor

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