"Cancer", a disease that is almost synonymous with terminal illness in everyone's mind, is the nightmare of countless families suffering from cancer.
Obviously, it has a chance of cure in the early stages, but it is difficult to detect the disease at an early stage, and patients do not even have any symptoms in the carcinoma in situ stage. Once the symptoms appear and gradually worsen, the disease has already entered the stage of spread, invasion and metastasis, and after spending a lot of money on treatment, it is often difficult to reverse the outcome, and the patient eventually dies of cancer.
Therefore, we are afraid of cancer from the bottom of our hearts, both to prevent cancer and to know more about the symptoms of cancer. In clinical view, the symptoms and reactions caused by cancerous changes in different organs are different, and sometimes the internal organs become cancerous, which may also affect the state of the skin, resulting in various abnormal symptoms of the skin.
For example, the following symptoms have suddenly appeared recently, and beingware is a signal that cancer is coming:
1. Acanthosis nigricans
Its full clinical name is Acanthosis melanacenos, and its main feature is that the patient's skin has abnormal changes such as hyperkeratosis, pigmentation, and papillary hyperplasia, which can appear in many areas such as the neck, face, vulva, and inner thighs.
In clinical view, acanthosis nigricans is mainly divided into two categories: benign and malignant. Almost all of the malignant acanthosis nigricans is related to visceral tumors, nearly 60% of patients have skin symptoms that develop simultaneously with the degree of cancer malignancy, nearly 20% of patients have acanthosis nigricans first and malignant tumors for several years, and nearly 20% of patients have malignant tumors that are primary and the skin is secondary;
2. Itchy skin
This is one of the most common symptoms in everyday life, but it can also be linked to cancer. If there is a sudden sudden appearance of inexplicable skin itching and stubborn itching, whether it is scratching or medication is not relieved, the disease recurs, which may be a sign of cancer.
Clinically, patients with stomach cancer, lymphoma, liver cancer, and pancreatic cancer may have skin itching. The reason for this is related to the various irritating active substances released by cancer cells, which can act on the peripheral nerves of the skin, leading to the appearance of itching;
3. Hyperbilirubinemia
The sign of this metabolic disorder is jaundice, and patients may have multiple abnormal yellowing of the skin, mucous membranes, sclera, etc., accompanied by intractable itching of the skin, changes in the color of the stool and other symptoms.
Jaundice in most cases, is the liver, gallbladder and other organ lesions after the manifestation, such as these two organs after cancer, can affect bilirubin metabolism, bile production and discharge, resulting in bilirubin accumulation in the blood, this orange-yellow component promotes jaundice.
In addition, when the pancreas becomes cancerous, once it invades the lower end of the common bile duct and liver metastasis occurs, jaundice can also occur;
4. Black face
Recently, the face has become more and more dull and dull, it looks like it has not washed the face for a long time, and there are a large number of obvious melanin deposits around their eyes and lips, and sometimes even show a bronzed face, which is likely to be the clinically said liver disease face, which is a signal of severe liver cirrhosis, liver cancer and other diseases.
Due to the serious damage to the liver function of the patient, melanin is frantically synthesized in the body and deposited on the weak skin of the face, forming a liver disease face.
Written in the end: although the skin is a mirror that reflects the health of the body, the appearance of symptoms of the skin is not necessarily a signal of cancer, and there are many chronic diseases in the development period, and there will also be similar symptoms to cancer. Therefore, skin symptoms can only be seen as a manifestation of physical illness, and the type of disease that can only be diagnosed after examination.