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Reason For Paleness Due To Pancreatic Cancer?

hi my mum has pancreatic cancer and is on 100mg morphine patch plus morphine tablets she lives a distance from me so I don t see her all the time although I visited today to notice her complexion had gone completely pale and colourless I have never seen anything like this before why would this happen
Wed, 7 Jan 2015
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Pancreatic cancer per se does not cause paleness (which is probably due to low hemoglobin). Nor do the medicines that you have written she is on. So, there could be a number of reasons for her paleness. First could be a poor oral intake. If that is the case then that would explain it. Otherwise it could be due to the tumor bleeding inside. in which case an endoscopy and ablation of the bleeding will be required. Also, in this case she may have black colored stools or blood in the vomitus. First, get a hemoglobin estimation done and if it low then follow the above algorithm.
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Reason For Paleness Due To Pancreatic Cancer?

Pancreatic cancer per se does not cause paleness (which is probably due to low hemoglobin). Nor do the medicines that you have written she is on. So, there could be a number of reasons for her paleness. First could be a poor oral intake. If that is the case then that would explain it. Otherwise it could be due to the tumor bleeding inside. in which case an endoscopy and ablation of the bleeding will be required. Also, in this case she may have black colored stools or blood in the vomitus. First, get a hemoglobin estimation done and if it low then follow the above algorithm.