What are the Symptoms and Clinical Signs of Ewings Sarcoma?
Presentation: doctors talk about ‘presentation’ when they mean ‘symptoms’ and ‘clinical signs’. Symptoms are what the patient or parent/ carer see or feel. Clinical signs are what the doctors may see during a physical examination, giving doctors clues about what is wrong with the patient. Most common symptoms reported: • Localised pain: bone pain; may come and go and vary in its intensity. • Swelling, this can be seen if it is on a bone near the surface of the body but in other places, like on the pelvis, it may not be visible Less common symptoms, rare and very rare symptoms, fever (pyrexia), tiredness or feeling weary, (lethargy), pain accompanied by tingling and numbness (pins and needles), weight loss and loss of appetite, breathlessness. Symptoms vary from patient to patient and can range in their severity. They may be mild at first coming on over a period of a couple of weeks. They may also appear suddenly. Some patients report their symptoms disappearing for relatively long peri
