Medical history (history of illness) represents a building block in the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer (pancreatic cancer).
Family history
- Does your family have a history of cancer that is common?
Social history
- Is there any evidence of psychosocial stress or strain due to your family situation?
Current medical history/systemic history (somatic and psychological complaints).
- Do you suffer from diarrhea, nausea, vomiting?
- Has the stool changed in shape, color and consistency?
- Have you lost any body weight? If so, how much in what time?
- Do you suffer from abdominal pain? Where exactly are they localized?
- Do you have increased flatulence?
- Have you noticed a yellowing of the skin?
- Has there been any change in urination? In quantity, consistency, admixtures? Does it come to pain in the process?
- Do you have a fever?
- Have you noticed a yellowish discoloration of the skin?
- Do you have any abnormalities in urination?
- Do you have any gynecological abnormalities (e.g., dysmenorrhea/regular pain; missed period)?
- Do you have nocturnal pain that wakes you up?
- Have you had an infectious disease recently?
Vegetative anamnesis including nutritional anamnesis.
- Are you overweight? Please tell us your body weight (in kg) and height (in cm).
- Has your appetite changed?
- Do you smoke? If so, how many cigarettes, cigars, or pipes per day?
- Do you drink alcohol? If yes, what drink(s) and how many glasses per day?
- Do you use drugs? If yes, what drugs and how often per day or per week?
Self history incl. medication history.
- Pre-existing conditions (gastrointestinal diseases, infectious diseases, tumor diseases).
- Operations (abdominal surgery, tumor surgery).
- Allergies
- Environmental history (nitrosamines)
- Drug history
