1. Weight loss in short time (not in people on diet) – the most common symptom observed in cancer of lung, stomach, kidney, large intestine. Sometimes accompanying weakness may be an evidence of blood loss or lack of proper compounds to its production.

2. Pain (of unknown cause) – long term abdominal pain can be a symptom of cancer of large intestine, pain in lumbar region may be an evidence of renal cancer, and in chest – of lung cancer. Osseal pains may be caused by metastases.

3. Haemoptysis, long term hoarseness (over 3 weeks), persistent cough or change of its character – may be caused by lung or laryngeal cancer.

4. Swallowing disturbances - may suggest tumour of pharynx, larynx, esophagus, stomach.

5. Fullness in hypergastrium sensation, pains, disturbances of digestion – gastric cancer, other tumours of gastrointestinal track, sometimes ovarian cancer.

6. Blood in stool, black stool, alternating diarrhoeas and constipation, mucus in stool, thin (pencil-like) stools - tumours of gastrointestinal track, especially of colorectum.

7. Haematuria (without symptoms of infection of urinary track), dysuria (urgency, difficulties in urination) – may accompany the tumours of urinary track.

8. Abnormal bleedings from sexual organs – may indicate on vaginal cancer, cervical cancer or cancer of the uterus body.

9. Changes on skin and mucous membranes (of lips, oral cavity, sexual organs: not healing ulcerations, change of the naevus character, appearance of new skin changes of special features (irregular pigment location, hardly visible border between change and healthy skin, fast growth of these changes, bleeding, oozing, scab).

10. Nodule of breast, ulceration, nipple retraction, asymmetry of nipples - often suggest breast tumour.

11. Enlarged lymph nodes – in many tumours, but also frequently under influence of inflammatory state.

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