Cancer can cause different complications which can be only one or multiple complications together. These complications vary depending on the type of cancer:
1. Pain: cancer or its treatment can cause pain.
2. Fatigue: it can occur in almost all types in cancer but it is easily managed. It can also occur from treatments as such with chemotherapy or radiotherapy but this is usually temporary.
3. Weight loss: cancer tends to steal the food from the normal cells and deprives them of nutrients.
4. Nausea: certain types of cancers as stomach cancer tend to make us feel nauseous.
5. Cancer spread: when cancer becomes advanced it tends to spread or metastasise. This can happen either to surrounding organs, through blood vessels or through lymphatic vessels.
6. Immune system: cancer can cause a rare reaction to the immune system. The immune cells can start attacking healthy cells being a disease called “paraneoplastic syndrome”.
7. Cancer return: cancer survivors are always at risk for cancer recurrence.