Pancreatic cancer is also called 'the silent killer' because it symptoms is elusive; we were all eluded; it is already stage III at the time of diagnosis.
-Dad started to burp REAL loud and long
-He had no appetite
-consistent and significant weight loss
-sleeping every 2 to 3 hours (later we found out it is call chronic fatigue).
we used to jokingly say he is a sleeping champion.
-back pain (due to tumour mass compressing on the celiac axis (nerves) Daphne even sent to to top notch gastro- specialist for endoscopy 6 months before.
GI tract was cleared and doc did not bother to probe further.
To the point he cannot sleep as bothered by wind and backpain, CT scan was ordered and tumour marker test (CA19-9) confirmed it is stage III.
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