In the UK, they talked about the symptoms of cancer similar to the common cold
British Maeve Fanning considered a dry cough to be a consequence of a cold, and later learned that it was a symptom of blood cancer. This was reported on September 3 by the Daily Mail newspaper.
At first, the woman complained of an upset stomach, heaviness in her stomach and lack of appetite. Doctors prescribed antacids for her. Soon after, a new symptom appeared — a dry cough, followed by severe shortness of breath.
The British woman underwent a CT scan, as a result of which a significant amount of fluid was found in her lungs. The doctors informed Maeve that this could be a sign of blood cancer, especially since she had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease a year earlier. These two diseases often accompany each other.
After the tests, the woman was diagnosed with thymoma, a tumor of the thymus gland. The patient was in the fourth stage of the disease, which meant that she could no longer respond to treatment. Maeve was prescribed chemotherapy. Now she goes for procedures every three weeks.
"Now Ms. Fanning is doing everything possible to ensure that her three children — 9-year-old Una, 5-year—old Cormac and 2-year-old Kiaran - grow up, despite the fact that she was told that palliative chemotherapy, which would give her a maximum of two years, was the only option," the newspaper reports.
On August 20, Galina Chudinskaya, a neurologist at JSC "Medicine" (Academician Roitberg Clinic), told Izvestia that parageusia can be a symptom of a brain tumor and diabetes mellitus. Parageusia is a pathological perception of taste, including a distortion, weakening or false sense of taste (for example, the taste of metal, bitterness, rot). The main causes may be gliomas, meningiomas, and metastatic tumors, especially in those areas of the brain responsible for taste perception.
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