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Does The Abdominal Pain And Enlargement Indicate Early Stages Of Cancer?

Following dinner, I have moderately severe pain in my lower left abdomen. The pain is very centralized in one area and after about 30 minutes, pain goes away.
Recent Ultra Sound spleen demonstrates normal echotexture and measures 15 cm and is enlarged. Does enlargement and pain indicate early stages of cancer. What further tests would you recommend?
Wed, 15 Jan 2014
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Hi,

I have gone through your query.
15 cm size of spleen is moderate splenomegaly(enlargement of spleen). It doesn't indicate that you have cancer. There are various causes of it like:
Infection may be bacterial, viral or parasitic.
Cancer
Sarcoidosis
cyst
Abscess
Infiltrative disease.

So the conclusion of being in cancer cannot be drawn now. Further test requires to confirm the cause of splenomegaly which include Blood tests such as CBC(Complete Blood Count) and liver function tests, CT scan.


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Does The Abdominal Pain And Enlargement Indicate Early Stages Of Cancer?

Hi, I have gone through your query. 15 cm size of spleen is moderate splenomegaly(enlargement of spleen). It doesn t indicate that you have cancer. There are various causes of it like: Infection may be bacterial, viral or parasitic. Cancer Sarcoidosis cyst Abscess Infiltrative disease. So the conclusion of being in cancer cannot be drawn now. Further test requires to confirm the cause of splenomegaly which include Blood tests such as CBC(Complete Blood Count) and liver function tests, CT scan. Do consider a positive feedback as a credit to my work. Let me know if you have any further questions.