Oncologist, Deputy Director of the EMC Oncology Institute Pavel Koposov told “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” under which diseases cancer can be masked and what symptoms should be alerted first of all.
According to the doctor, most often cancer is disguised as diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In this case, the first signs of the development of a malignant tumor are nausea, vomiting, heartburn, as well as a violation of the stool, bloating, weight loss and pain in various parts of the stomach.
If you have such “alarm bells”, then in this case you need to contact at least a gastroenterologist as soon as possible and undergo a CT scan or MRI. Moreover, an obsessive cough, a feeling of a “coma” in the throat, as well as difficulty in swallowing food can suggest the development of oncology.
Also, according to the oncologist, cancer can pretend to be a disease of the female and male reproductive system, and the symptoms in this case will be pain when urinating, discharge from the genitals, nagging pain in the lower abdomen and menstrual irregularities. Benign changes on the skin are also not always safe.
For example, it is impossible to determine with the naked eye whether a benign formation has appeared on the skin or whether it is melanoma. If there is a suspicion, then you need to contact a dermatologist, who, with the help of dermatoscopy, will certainly make a diagnosis.
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