Pancreatic cancer symptoms are often nonspecific and variable. Pancreatic cancer is a type of cancer affecting the pancreas. It is a malignant tumor of the pancreas. This type of cancer is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage because patients typically show no signs or symptoms at an early stage. Consequently, pancreatic cancer may be marked a silent killer. Later, when the signs and symptoms show, they are generally variable and nonspecific. One symptom is upper abdominal pain. This pain often radiates to the back and is usually relieved when the patient leans forward. Loss of appetite or anorexia, nausea and vomiting are other symptoms of pancreatic cancer. Significant weight loss and jaundice without pain are other indicators of disease. Jaundice is a yellowing of the skin and eyes and may be accompanied by dark urine. When pancreatic cancer affecting the pancreas, preventing bile duct, which passes through the pancreas. This may lead to the saddle lightly colored and steatorrhea. Trousseau sign is a symptom associated with cancer of the pancreas which blood clots form spontaneously in the portal blood vessels, veins deep members or in the superficial veins anywhere in the body. Clinical depression has also been included in the symptoms of pancreatic cancer. Sometimes before the cancer diagnosis, but the mechanism of this association is not yet known. Surgery is usually used to treat pancreatic cancer. After surgery, chemotherapy, remove any remaining cancerous tissue.

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