I’m sure you’ve come across this before - you have a symptom, Google it, and usually in the first page of results cancer will be mentioned.
Recently found this myself when I discovered a small lump on my side; went to the doctor and it was a harmless cyst. But why is Google so likely to throw up cancer as a cause of symptoms?
Cancer is a reasonable explanation for a lump in one’s side. Do you also find the same thing when searching for information on a headache, sore throat, or achy knees?
That’s true but it’s only one possible cause. On the others can check yourself - Google ‘constant headache’ and there are two mentions of the c-word on the front page for me. ‘Recurring sore throat’ took until page 2. People will aching knees are free from panic though; went to page 10 and zero mention.
WebMD prefers heart attack as the go to diagnosis. Nausea, dizziness, fullness, heartburn…HEART ATTACK.
Because it’s never lupus.
Damn you, jayjay. I wanted to make that joke.
Could it be to get people off the internet and to the doctor?
Brother had an aching knee. He did go to a doctor and thought strain/sprain was likely. X-ray told another story. Died of bone cancer a couple years later. 
Don’t rely on Dr Google.
I started breaking out with some small red blotches on my forearms a while ago. When I Googled the symptom, one of the first things to come up was bone marrow cancer. I tried not to panic, but saw my doctor, who said that was a very unlikely explanation. Just the same, there was a bit of nagging worry in my mind until I went to my cardiologist a few days ago, who assured me that it’s a very common symptom in someone my age (62) who takes a daily low-dose aspirin (as I do). He said, “You think that’s something, you should see my patients who are on Coumadin.”
Exactly, and pre-emptively defend any against legal action (‘we warned you it could be serious . . .’)
Show of hands: Who here did NOT enter this thread to make that joke? C’mon, admit it. Up…up…just as I thought, nobody. 
FWIW - I had to google it! The lupus joke, I mean.
Cultural illiterate! I thought we had rules here.
Wait, that would mean I’d have to read and/or watch Game of Thrones. Never mind!
The last time I played Civilization IV for 72 hours straight with no breaks, I started to develop severe edema in my lower extremities. My subsequent web search came up with a bunch of possible causes such as HEART DISEASE, KIDNEY FAILURE, LIVER FAILURE, DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS, ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK …or maybe you’re just sitting in one place for too long.
So I got some sleep, did some exercise the next day, massaged my feet a lot and eventually it went away. Oh, and now I limit my CivIV sessions to 48 hours or less. 
Nope!
If you never acknowledge you have a problem, it doesn’t exist!
Yo tambien. I had heard it before, but couldn’t place it. Never could get into that show. My wife watched it, so I tried to force myself to like it, but it just didn’t click with me.