Hello, my name is Mary. I am 39 years old. I have had a history in my family of cancer on my mothers side. I worry a lot, and in this situation maybe I am worrying for nothing, but in all honesty I am scared. My legs hurt so bad all I can do is rock and rub them and cry. It starts in my shins and goes all through my legs. I get terrible headaches. My scalp always feel sore and it hurts too much. Constant headaches, even light makes me sick, and I am losing clumps of hair on a regular basis. Could it be that I have some type of cancer?
Hi, Thanks for writing in. It is important to know proper details about cancer in your family and how many relatives had it. Pain in the legs and tiredness can be due to generalized weakness and anxiety. Cancer is not one condition but a group of many conditions involving uncontrolled proliferative cells in various organs. Your headache might also be due to anxiety. Highly suspicious common symptoms of cancer are a swelling that is painful or painless of recent appearance and growing fast, fever, loss of weight, generalized weakness, vomiting, blood in stools, sudden change in bowel habit. If you want to get peace of mind concerning you having cancer then please approach a cancer screening clinic at any cancer hospital and inform them about cancer history in your family and get the important relevant cancer screening tests done.