Comprehensive Chart
| Area | Ratio Male : Female |
Age | Contributing Factor | Symptoms Presenting Features |
| BRAIN | 3 : 2 | Children, Young, Adult | Radiation, Immuno-suppression (specially after organ transplant), AIDS |
Morning headache, Convulsions, Personality changes, Psychosis, Nausea, Vomiting, Sleepiness |
| ORAL CAVITY, LIP, THROAT | more in males | Over 40 | Tobacco chewing, smoking, gutka & pan masala chewing, ill-fitting dentures, alcohol |
Hoarse Voice, Visible ulcers, Difficulty in swallowing, Opening of mount, Red/White patches inside the mouth |
| GULLET | more in males | Over 40 | Smoking, alcohol, hot drinks | Difficulty and pain while swallowing, Cough while swallowing. |
| BREAST | 1 : 90 | 35 – 50 & onwards | Previous benign, tumor of the breast, delayed first conception, childless woman, avoidance of breast feeding, family history, radiation, alcoholism |
Pain in the breast (with or without lump), inversion of nipple, swelling of the same arm, redness of breast, eczema of nipple discharge |
| LUNG | 4 : 1 | 55 – 65 | Smoking, pollution, exposure to asbestos and some metallic products (factory workers) |
Cough and breathlessness, chest pain, blood in sputum, pain in shoulder or arm. |
| SKIN | more in males | Young & Middle aged people | Exposure to sun (specially fair-skinned people), contact with coal tar ointments and in people who work with tar, dyes aniline |
Dar patch, sometimes black, only over exposed areas of body with burning and irritation. |
| STOMACH | 2 : 1 | 55 & above | Salting, pickling, nitrosamines, H. pylori | Pain in the upper abdomen, vomiting, blood in vomit. |
| LIVER | 4 : 1 | 50 – 60 | Patients of cirrhosis, alcoholism, viral hepatitis, any chronic liver disease, prolonged exposure to radiation |
Enlarged lever, pain and tenderness over right upper abdomen, occasionally jaundice. |
| GALL BLADDER | 1 : 4 | 70 | Stones of Gall bladder already present | Continuous pain in right upper abdomen, a firm mass felt in this area, jaundice |
| LYMPH GLANDS HODGKINS DISEASE |
3 : 1 | 30 – 40 & under 10 | None | Painless enlargement of lymph glands, recurring fever, enlarged spleen, night sweating |
| BLOOD (ACUTE LEUKEMIA) |
3 : 2 | 2 – 4 | Radiation during pregnancy of mother, in patients with birth defects |
Anemia, fever, pains in joint, enlarged spleen and liver, bleeding from any source |
| (ACUTE LEUKEMIA) | …. | 50 & over | Radiation, smoking, chemical treatment for other malignancies |
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| (CHRONIC LEUKEMIA) | 2 : 1 | 50 & over | Family history, radiation, smoking | Anemia, fever, enlarged spleen & liver, distention of abdomen |
| KIDNEY (HYPER NEPHROMA) |
2 : 1 | under 20 | smoking, taking drugs with phenacetin, people with polycystic kidneys |
Blood in the urine, pain in the abdomen, lump felt at the side of the abdomen. |
| (WILM’S TUMOUR) | …. | under 7 | …. | |
| OVARY | females only | Middle age | Childless woman, breast cancer | Pain in the abdomen, lump in the abdomen, irregular periods. |
| UTERUS | females only | 50 & over | Childless or unmarried woman, obesity, hypertension, diabetes |
Bleeding after menopause, discharge from vagina |
| CERVIX | females only | Young & Middle aged woman | Starting sex in early in life, polygamy, several children, smoking, poor genital hygiene, Human papilloma virus (HPV) & Herpes simplex (virus) |
Bleeding after intercourse, bleeding in between periods, pain in the lower abdomen, discharge from vagina, backache, increased frequency of urine |
| URINARY BLADDER | 3 : 1 | over 40 | Smoking exposures to aniline dyes, industrial workers (rubber, leather) exposure to pesticides, anti-cancer drugs and Schistosomiasis (a parasite) |
Blood in the urine, discomfort while passing urine, increased frequency of urine |
| PROSTATE | males only | 60 & over | Radiation | Pain in the bones (fro spread), usually detected at routine medical check-up |
| BONE | 2 : 1 | 20 – 25 | Injury | Hot / Bony Swelling |
| In all cancers there is usually loss of appetite, weakness, loss of weight, sometimes anemia, breathlessness and acute pain, The above presenting features are apart from all these symptoms |
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