Back pain that radiates to the stomach and agonising pain in calf muscles are signs of lethal pancreatic cancer that too few are aware of, a top cancer doctor has warned.
These are just two of six little-known symptoms that hospital medic Dr Priyam Bordoloi has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to flag to his 66,000 followers in a bid to help the public spot the disease early.
'Pancreatic cancer is notoriously silent,' he wrote in a thread that's so far had five million views.
'Because it hides so deep in the body, catching it early is your only real chance.
'We see patients ignore these exact signs for months until the tumour is completely inoperable. Do not wait.'
