At this point, symptoms depend on the cancer 's location within the pancreas 1  : Pancreatic cancer in the head of the pancreas tends to cause symptoms such as weight loss, jaundice (yellow skin), dark urine, light stool color, itching, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, back pain, and enlarged lymph nodes in the neck.
1 Some state that the average human attention span is approximately 5 minutes; others state that most healthy teenagers and adults are unable to sustain attention on one thing for more than about 20 minutes at a time, although they can choose repeatedly to re-focus on the same thing. Transient attention is a short-term response to a stimulus that temporarily attracts/distracts attention. 2  Researchers disagree on the exact amount of human transient attention span; some say it may be as short as 8 seconds.
Study: Average Attention Span Now 8 Seconds â Lower than a Goldfish. With an average of 8 seconds, down from 12. A study from Microsoft involving more than 2,000 people has found that the average attention span has dipped to a low 8 seconds â down from 12 seconds in 2000. A goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds. There are many effects from smartphones and the like on the human body which are never written about.