If your symptoms get worse or you develop any new symptoms suddenly, you should always see your GP, and if your symptoms don’t improve, go back to your GP until you get a firm diagnosis, or a referral for tests to find out what’s causing them, the health site adds.
Risk factors
While it not clear what causes pancreatic cancer, certain factors may heighten a person’s risk of developing the disease.
Carrying excess weight is thought to be a risk factor and according to recent findings presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2019, excess weight before age 50 may be more strongly associated with pancreatic cancer mortality risk than excess weight at older ages.
Researchers examined data from 963,317 U.S. adults with no history of cancer who enrolled in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study II, a nationwide study of cancer mortality that began in 1982 and followed participants through 2014.
