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[[Category:Surgery final (POTE course)]]

Malignancies can present with many different signs and symptoms, most of which are unspecific.

== Cancer's "seven warning signs" ==
According to a surgery lecture, these are “cancer’s seven warning signals”:

* Change in bowel or bladder habits
* A sore that does not heal
* Unusual bleeding or discharge
* Thickening or lump in breast or elsewhere
* Indigestion or difficulty in swallowing
* Obvious change in wart or mole
* Nagging cough or hoarseness

The following are other non-specific symptoms of cancer:
* [[Anaemia]]
* Weight loss
* Loss of appetite
* Weakness

{{#lst:Paraneoplastic syndrome|surgery}}

== References ==