Symptoms

Symptoms of Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic cancer has been called a silent disease because it does not have many symptoms until the cancer advances. The early symptoms, such as back pain, may be vague and not specific to the pancreas.

Common symptoms of pancreatic cancer include:

• Pain in your abdomen, back or both
• Indigestion or discomfort, especially after eating fatty foods
• Yellowing of the skin (jaundice) or the whites of the eyes (scleral icterus)
• Dark yellow or brown urine
• Lack of appetite
• Unexplained weight loss
• Nausea
• Fatigue
• An enlarged abdomen from a swollen gallbladder
• Pale, greasy, foul-smelling stools that float in the toilet
• Blood clots in the leg, causing pain, redness or swelling in your leg
• Blood clots in your lung, causing shortness of breath or chest pain
• Uneven, lumpy fatty tissue under your skin