Most people don’t know they have pancreatic cancer until it has spread, because the symptoms usually come late, often as a result of the cancer affecting other organs, and they are common to many different illnesses. Weight loss, back pain, nausea, and loss of appetite can have hundreds of causes. The yellowing eyes and skin of jaundice is another symptom but is far more likely to be caused by viral hepatitis than anything else, so it’s usually chalked up to that.
