Cancer Signs and Symptoms

Breast

  • a new lump or thickening in your breast or armpit
  • a change in size, shape or feel of your breast
  • skin changes in the breast such as puckering, dimpling, a rash or redness of the skin
  • fluid leaking from the nipple in a woman who isn’t pregnant or breast feeding
  • changes in the position of the nipple
  • change of appearance in the nipple such as becoming sunken in your breast
  • a rash (like eczema) crusting, scaly or itchy skin or redness on or around the nipple

Bowel

  • Bloating
  • Blood in your poo which may look red or black
  • Stomach pain
  • Needing to poo more or less than usual
  • Unexplained weight loss
  • Bleeding from your bottom
  • Feeling like you’ve not emptied your bowel properly after having a poo
  • Unexplained tiredness, dizziness, or breathlessness
  • a lower-than-normal level of red blood cells (anaemia)

Lung

  • Persistent breathlessness
  • A cough that doesn’t go away after 3 weeks
  • Loss of appetite
  • Unexplained weight loss
  • A continuous cough that gets worse
  • Coughing up blood
  • Repeated chest infections
  • Feeling tired
  • A hoarse voice for 3 weeks or more

Cervical

  • Vaginal bleeding that unusual for you- including bleeding during or after sex, between your periods or after the menopause or having heavier periods then usual.
  • Changes to your vaginal discharge
  • Pain during sex
  • Pain in your lower back, between your hip bones (pelvis) or in your lower tummy.
  • Urine infections that keep coming back

Prostate

  • Needing to pee more frequently including during the night
  • Slow or Weak flow
  • Feeling your bladder has not fully emptied
  • Painful or burning urination
  • Blood in the urine
  • Prostate pain

Skin

  • Red patches to your skin
  • A change to a freckle or mole
  • Itchy skin
  • Sore area of skin that hurts, scabs, bleeds or crusts for more then 4 weeks.

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