Oncologist Identifies Five Cancer Symptoms Often Mistaken for Aging

Across the quiet routines of daily life, the body sometimes speaks in a language we have learned to ignore — fatigue mistaken for the weight of years, a cough dismissed as the season's residue, a shifting in weight welcomed rather than questioned. An oncologist who witnesses the consequences of this silence has named five symptoms that patients routinely misread as ordinary aging, warning that the gap between a symptom's first appearance and a doctor's first knowledge of it can determine not just treatment options, but survival itself. The human tendency to normalize discomfort is ancient and