To get cancer, do you necessarily have any symptoms?!

No. I had no symptoms when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. If it hadn't been for my yearly mammogram, It would have been there for yet another year. I felt no lump, and I felt no pain.

Breast Cancer survivor

There are so many different types of cancer. All start with the development of a tumor and it spreads. My dad is a 4 time kidney cancer senior citizen survivor, when he figured out the first time he had cancer he was far into stages of the cancer and had a kidney removed, he had no prior symptoms other to the day that he was in th er for it. At some point the cancer killing you will give you symptoms, you don't just die of cancer without symptoms.

you can have cancer for a long time before its every diagnosed. yes eventually you will have symptoms, but for some cancers, by that time its too late to do anything about it.

No, but the truth is that it really depends on what type of cancer. Most folks with ovarian cancer have no clue until later in the course of the disease. However, laryngeal cancer almost never asymptomatic.

No people can have cancer for a long time before symptoms show. It's hard because when they show and that is how it's discovered for some, it may be in advanced stages.

People usually have cancer for years before it causes symptoms.

I am a cancer registrar.

My wife had stage IV kidney cancer and had no symptoms at all.Her cancer was found accidentally.