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Diagnosis, Staging

Post a new topicby contentuser on Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:51 pm


Diagnosis



Common symptoms include abdominal pain, weight loss, weakness, loss of appetite, vomiting, and jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes). Physical signs include abdominal distention caused by enlargement of the liver (hepatomegaly), ascites (water in the abdominal cavity), enlargement of the spleen (splenomegaly); and wasting and fever.




In addition, paraneoplastic syndromes (changes in tissues, remote from the primary tumor, which are indirectly caused by the presence ...Read the full article
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