Question: What are the first signs of cancer?

Natalia Brodaczewska answered on 14 Mar 2020:

That really depends on what kind of cancer somebody has but in a lot of cases the initial signs of cancer are very general and don’t make people think that they may have a serious disease. In many cases people may just get very tired all the time, have headaches, feel dizzy or lose their appetite and start losing weight. In blood cancers, people may start bleeding too much, like having nosebleeds and many bruises, they can also sweat more than usual and get ill often because their immune system is weakened. In lung cancer they may start coughing a lot and in brain cancer they may experience personality changes, like being very moody and forgetting things. So there are lots of different symptoms that can be connected to cancer but can also be caused by many other conditions. This is why cancer can be very difficult to diagnose and many people don’t know that they have it until it becomes very advanced and hard to treat.