Published on: 1 April 2025
This month our Peace of Mind campaign continues on social media with a focus on pancretic cancer.
If you feel something isn't right, see your GP or primary care provider without delay. It might be nothing, but better to get it checked out for your 'peace of mind'.
Early detection can lead to successful treatment, so our message is ‘please don’t leave it until it becomes an emergency’.
Symptoms of pancreatic cancer can include:
- the whites of your eyes or your skin turn yellow (jaundice), and you may also have itchy skin, darker pee and paler poo than usual
- loss of appetite or losing weight without trying to
- feeling tired or having no energy
- a high temperature, or feeling hot or shivery
Other symptoms can affect your digestion, such as:
- feeling or being sick
- diarrhoea or constipation, or other changes in your poo
- pain at the top part of your tummy and your back, which may feel worse when you're eating or lying down and better when you lean forward
- symptoms of indigestion, such as feeling bloated
The Peace of Mind campaign was first launched across social media and local radio adverts during the summer of 2024, focusing on five cancers that are typically presented and detected late across our region.
Those same five cancers - ovarian, pancreatic, womb, bladder and oesphagael - are featured again in this latest phase of the campaign which began in February and runs to the end of June 2025.
Fortunately, most people who show up to get cancer symptoms checked out will get the all-clear, but an early diagnosis improves the chances of effective treatment if needed.
You can check out the common signs and symptoms of those cancers here, along with more information about the Peace of Mind campaign.