Question 1

what are typical signs of cancer?

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Anything: Cancer is not a disease but a collection of many diseases with different symptoms and prognosis. You need to be more specific.

Question 2

what are signs of cancer ?

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7signs of cancer: Changes in bathroom habits or bleeding from rectum, unusual discharge or bleeding, thickness or lump in breasts, indigestion and difficulty in swallowing, changes in warts or moles, nagging cough or hoarseness.  You can read more about this on the web for american cancer society.

Question 3

what are the warning signs of cancer?

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Common symptoms: Specific symptoms such as a changing mole (melanoma), difficulty swallowing (esophageal cancer), enlarging lymph glands (lymphoma), bloody stools (colon & rectal cancer), blood sputum (lung cancer). Also general things such as unexplained weight loss, low blood levels, persistent fevers, severe fatigue, progressive shortness of breath, etc.

Question 4

what are the noticable signs of cancer?

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Variable: Some of the most common are swollen lymph nodes, unexplained weight loss, trouble breathing, or unusual bleeding from the vagina, rectum, or in the urine.

Question 5

what are the most frequent signs of cancer?

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Cancer: There is no easy answer to this as each cancer has a different assortment of symptoms. Skin cancer would be totally different than ovarian cancer or lung cancer or even brain cancer. Any unusual symptoms should be checked out with your doctor.

Question 6

would you please help describe the usual signs of cancer?

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7 signs of cancer: 1.Change in bowel or bladder habits 
2.A sore that does not heal 
3.Unusual bleeding or discharge 
4.Thickening or lump in the breast or elsewhere 
5.Indigestion or difficulty in swallowing 
6.Obvious change in a wart or mole 
7.Nagging cough or hoarseness.

Question 7

besides the seven signs of cancer, are there any other ways of finding out if a person has the disease?

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See your doctor: That's a very good beginning!
there are specialized tests. 


There are several tests designed to diagnose different cancers. Talk to your doctor for guided advice. Everybody does not to get tested for all the tests available.
 These can be very expensive and unnecessary in most cases.

Question 8

in addition to the seven signs of cancer are there any other ways of finding out if a person has the disease?

Accepted Answer

Not really: Attempts have been made to use tumor markers such as Ca 125 and Ca 19.9 but these also arise in inflammatory changes of organ.  Specific immunogenic markers eventually will work because they are immunogenic and characterize only the malignancy.  Gene mutations such as in p53 (cologuard) but don't tell if Ca present or impending.

Question 9

is it possible that do nothing about it.what are some of the common and not so common signs of cancer whether in male or female?

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Broad Question: In general, painless rapid growth over time are hallmarks of worrisome lesions.  Lesions that have not changed in a long time are less likely to represent a cancerous growth.   A less common sign of cancer might be changes areound the lesion.  For example a pale halo around a dark skin lesion might be a sign of cancer.

Question 10

what are early signs of cancer?

Accepted Answer

Depends: Depends on the type of cancer, my friend. Very often there are no symptoms until the cancer is advanced so it is very important to focus on prevention and early detection.

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