Cancer can be difficult to spot due to the variety of symptoms it often causes. Pancreatic cancer in particular is notoriously difficult to detect due to its location deep inside the body and the lack of symptoms it causes.
However, there are a few key signs that people should look out for to help catch this deadly form of the disease as early as possible - and they are found in the legs. Pancreatic cancer has a unique ability to induce blood into a hyper-coagulative state, which means sufferers have a higher risk of blood clotting.
Therefore, a clot in the leg - known as a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) - is usually the first sign that someone has pancreatic cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. "Symptoms can include pain, swelling, redness and warmth in the affected leg," the group explained.
