Former England soccer supervisor Sven-Göran Eriksson has died aged 76 after turning into terminally in poor health with pancreatic most cancers.
The Swedish legend — who stated in January he had ‘finest case a 12 months’ to reside after his analysis — was the primary abroad boss to guide the England nationwide crew in 2001.
He led the gifted squad to quarter-finals of the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, and on the 2004 European Championships.
Final week Eriksson issued a public farewell in a new Amazon Prime Video documentary SVEN trying again at his life and profession.
A bigger-than-life character, worries about his well being first surfaced when he resigned from his sporting director place at Swedish membership Karlstad in February 2023.
Right here, MailOnline appears again on the heartbreakingly fast timeline of his sickness that took maintain in simply two years.
Former England soccer supervisor Sven-Göran Eriksson has died aged 76 after turning into terminally in poor health with pancreatic most cancers. The Swedish legend — who stated in January he had ‘finest case a 12 months’ to reside after his analysis — was the primary abroad boss to guide the England nationwide crew in 2001
At the moment, the vast majority of 10,500 folks identified with the illness annually within the UK die inside three months. A part of the issue is that it is typically noticed too late. Realizing the refined early signs of pancreatic most cancers — together with adjustments in rest room habits — might play an important position in boosting survival, say specialists
In interviews along with his two kids, they informed the documentary the gravity of their dad’s situation emerged within the hospital after he immediately collapsed throughout a 5km run final 12 months.
‘I had 10 missed calls from my sister, “dad’s within the emergency room”,’ his son Johan Eriksson stated.
‘”He isn’t in a great way.” You may sort of inform when the physician’s in tears that is…not good. Worst doable information.
‘We discovered that he had had 5 strokes and then you definately go right into a state of concern. A panic mode,’ Sven’s daughter Lina Eriksson added.
Recalling his analysis, in January Eriksson additionally revealed: ‘I assumed I used to be absolutely wholesome however immediately I had a small stroke so I fell and my kids took me to the hospital.
‘After in the future of examination they informed me I had 5 small strokes, however stated “no drawback, you’ll get better 100 per cent from that”.
‘However worse is that they stated I’ve most cancers which they cannot function on.
‘They stated they are going to give me therapy and drugs to attempt to reside so long as doable. I’ve that analysis they usually cannot function, sadly.’
At the moment, the vast majority of 10,500 folks identified with the illness annually within the UK die inside three months. A part of the issue is that it is typically noticed too late.
Realizing the refined early signs of pancreatic most cancers — together with adjustments in rest room habits — might play an important position in boosting survival, say specialists.
Right here, MailOnline shares the ‘hidden’ warning indicators of the illness, typically dubbed a ‘silent killer’.
Sven-Goran Eriksson along with his associate Yaniseth Alcides in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 22
Sven-Goran Eriksson speaks to captain David Beckham throughout Euro 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal
Indigestion
Tumours that develop in sure elements of the pancreas can press on different organs and nerves within the physique, inflicting ache within the abdomen space.
Sufferers describe it as a ‘boring’ ache that appears like it’s ‘boring into you’ with it sometimes showing on the prime a part of the stomach space.
This ache may also consequence if a tumour blocks the digestive tract. Ache might come and go at first however will develop into extra fixed because the illness progresses.
It could possibly really feel worse when mendacity down or after consuming however could also be alleviated by sitting ahead.
Nonetheless, it must be famous that ache is simply a possible symptom of pancreatic most cancers.
Some sufferers, as a result of exact location of their tumour, by no means expertise ache in any respect.
New onset diabetes
Some folks identified with pancreatic most cancers are additionally discovered to be newly diabetic.
Usually they’ve been identified throughout the earlier 12 months.
Based on Most cancers Analysis UK it’s because the the tumor destroys the insulin-making cells within the pancreas.
Due to this fact, there may be an excessive amount of sugar in your blood and passes out of the physique within the urine.
Signs can embrace feeling thirsty and hungry, and having to urinate typically.
Extra typically, most cancers can result in small adjustments in blood sugar ranges that do not trigger signs of diabetes however can nonetheless be detected with blood assessments.
Macmillan Most cancers Assist, nonetheless, additionally warning that different extra frequent situations may cause new onset diabetes.
However when you have any signs, you will need to get them checked by your physician.
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Jaundice
Jaundice, the yellowing of the pores and skin and eyes, is without doubt one of the commonest early signs of pancreatic most cancers.
It is attributable to the build-up of bilirubin, a yellowish-brown substance made by the liver. The liver releases bile, a fluid meant to assist digestion, which accommodates bilirubin.
In regular liver perform, bile strikes by way of ducts into the gut and helps to interrupt down fat.
Nonetheless, when bile ducts develop into blocked, bilirubin builds up, turning the pores and skin and eyes yellow.
In pancreatic most cancers, this may happen as a consequence of a tumour from the neighbouring pancreas urgent down on the bile duct.
Jaundice solely happens in some early pancreatic most cancers sufferers as a result of bile duct turning into blocked if the tumour occurs to develop on a sure a part of the organ.
Different indicators of jaundice embrace darkish urine, light-coloured or greasy stools and itchy pores and skin.
The yellowing of the pores and skin that happens in jaundice might be more durable to identify for folks with black or brown pores and skin.
Mid-back ache or discomfort
One other indicators is stomach or again ache, significantly if it begins as a gentle discomfort and worsens over time.
This ache is mostly persistent and is most frequently localised to the mid-back, or simply under the shoulder blades.
Like abdomen ache, if this symptom happens in any respect, it may well rely on the particular location of tumour.
Some sufferers solely have again ache and never abdomen ache, which is, once more, linked to the particular form of their tumour and the way it’s urgent on different tissues.
Based on the American Most cancers Society, the most cancers may additionally unfold to the nerves surrounding the pancreas, which frequently causes again ache.
Sven-Goran Eriksson alongside England’s Wayne Rooney on the 2006 World Cup in Germany
Different well-known victims embrace Harry Potter star Alan Rickman, who died in January 2016 aged 69. The Professor Snape actor was identified in August the 12 months earlier than after struggling a stroke
Ghost and Soiled Dancing main man Patrick Swayze was identified in 2007. He handed away in September 2009 on the age of simply 57, 20 months after his pancreatic most cancers analysis
Adjustments in the best way you poo
Uncommon adjustments in bowel actions is a steadily ignored signal of pancreatic most cancers.
This may take the type of both constipation or diarrhoea as a result of common upset to the digestive course of.
However a selected signal might be adjustments in stool or urine color.
One in all these is a symptom referred to as steatorrhoea — which implies fatty stools.
Victims might cross frequent, massive bowel motions which might be pale colored and smelly, and are tough to flush away.
These bowel adjustments are as a consequence of blockages of pancreatic ducts, that are an important a part of the digestive system, and may imply meals just isn’t being absorbed correctly.
Diarrhoea and constipation are additionally different doable bowel adjustments.
Darkish urine is one other symptom of jaundice, which happens when a tumor within the pancreas blocks the bile duct, one other a part of the digestive system.
This causes bilirubin, a waste product from the liver, to construct up within the physique and cross into the bloodstream, finally showing within the urine, turning it darkish yellow or orange.
Unexplained weight reduction
Pancreatic Most cancers Motion stresses that consciousness of adjustments in power ranges, ache, and bodily look could make all of the distinction in early detection and remedy.
One other hidden signal, unexplained weight reduction, can happen as a consequence of issues with the pancreas, which helps digest meals, or from folks dropping urge for food as a consequence of different signs like ache.
Cancers can sap power from the physique as tumours develop, which might additionally lead to weight reduction.
Folks with unexplained weight reduction together with different signs like ache or change in bowel habits are suggested to talk to their GP.
Greater than 43 per cent of sufferers first be taught they’ve the illness throughout an emergency in A&E after having visited their GP’s a number of occasions beforehand.
The one remedy is surgical procedure and by the point a affected person is affected by the kind of ache that warrants a visit to A&E, surgical procedure is probably going now not an choice because the most cancers can have unfold to different areas of the physique.
At current, eight in ten sufferers are identified when surgical procedure is now not an choice — and at the very least one individual each hour dies of pancreatic most cancers in UK.
‘Time is of the essence with pancreatic most cancers,’ says Joe Kirwin, CEO of Pancreatic Most cancers Motion.
‘We encourage everybody to belief their instincts and see a healthcare skilled in the event that they discover un-usual signs, irrespective of how small they might appear.’
