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Cancer – Clinical Presentation Video
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- Patients present with different symptoms depending on their cancer’s location.
- Common symptoms are weight loss, fatigue, and fevers of unknown origin that last longer than seven days.
- Patients with a cancerous mass in their chest may present with either a dry cough or hemoptysis.
- Masses due to spinal metastases may cause lower back pain.
- GI bleeding and acute changes in bowel and bladder habits are common presentations of colon cancer.
- Cancer may also present with palpable, visible masses.
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