Pancreatic Cancer
Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer
October 9, 2011 | 
Author There are several ways you can do this for the treatment of cancer with radiation therapy that uses high energy X-rays to destroy cancer cells. You may receive radiation treatment before or after cancer surgery performed. Your doctor will recommend a combination of radiation and chemotherapy treatment if your cancer can not be treated surgically.
Chemotherapy drugs kill cancer cells but also damage some normal cells. This can result in side effects, which depend on the type of drug, amount taken, and duration of treatment. Short-term side effects can include nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, hair loss and mouth sores. Because chemotherapy can damage the bone marrow, where new blood cells are made, the blood cell counts may be low.
Operation
Pancreatic cancer surgery is one of the most difficult operation for the surgeon and patient. Surgery causes complications and may take several weeks for patients to recover.
There are two types of operations that are used for pancreatic cancer:
1. Curative surgery when it looks like it is possible to remove all the cancer.
2. Palliative surgery may be done if tests show that the tumor is too large to be completely removed. In this case, surgery is performed to relieve symptoms or to prevent blockage of the bile duct or colon cancer.
Research has shown that palliative surgery did not help most patients to live longer. Read the rest of this entry »
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Diagnosing Pancreatic Cancer
To diagnose pancreatic cancer, doctors perform a complete physical examination and ask medical history private patients and families. In addition to the signs of general health (temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and so on), the doctor usually orders blood tests, urine, and feces. The doctor may also ask for a “series of barium swallow”, or “series of the upper gastrointestinal tract (upper GI)”. For this test, the patient drinks a barium solution before performing x-rays of the upper digestive system taken. Barium pancreas chart shows the x-rays.
Other tests may be ordered, such as:
• An angiogram, a special x-ray of blood vessels.
• CT scans, x-rays which give detailed pictures of cross section of the pancreas. Picture-gamar was created by a computer.
• transabdominal ultrasound to see the pancreas. In this procedure, a device that sends sound waves of high frequency, which can not be heard, is passed over the abdomen. The sound waves echo behind the pancreas. Echoes form a picture on a screen that looks like a television.
• ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram), is a special x-ray of the common bile duct. For this test, a long flexible tube (endoscope) is inserted through the patient’s esophagus through the stomach into the small intestine. A dye is injected into the common bile duct (common bile duct), and x-rays taken. Doctors can also look through the endoscope and taking tissue samples. Read the rest of this entry »
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Why Malignant Pancreatic Cancer in Jobs?
Tiger stripes dead leaves, dead Steve Jobs left Apple and pancreatic cancer. Indeed, although the rich and famous such as Jobs, his body could not fight against pancreatic cancer.
56-year-old man survived only seven years after saying it recovered from neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, after surgery in 2004. Understandably, the type of neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer relatively easy to handle than other types of pancreatic cancer, actor Patrick Swayze is undermined until he died two years ago.
Death of Buddhist Dalai Lama makes people want to know much about these pancreatic cancer. Jobs at the time of surgery which had been considered pessimistic by some medical experts.
Experts suspect that when done Whipple procedure or removal of part of the pancreas – a portion of the small intestine and some other parts of the digestive organs – in fact the cancer cells have spread to lymph nodes.
Allegations of some medical experts is evident when a few years later the condition deteriorated Jobs accompanied by weight loss and skin turn yellow. In January 2009, Jobs said that they experienced only a hormonal imbalance.
A few weeks later, he reportedly underwent liver transplantation. When undergoing the transplant is actually a bad sign that the conditions for pancreatic cancer Jobs had not yet finished.
According to the Head of Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PACN), based in Manhattan Beach, California, United States, Julie Fleshman, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, a type of cancer that diidap Jobs, is quite rare. Only 5 percent over all types of pancreatic cancer.
Survival rate of patients with pancreatic cancer is also very low. Data PCAN says 75 percent of patients die each year post-diagnosis and 94 percent die within five years after diagnosis. Read the rest of this entry »
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What Causes and Symptoms of Pancreatic Cancer?
Causes of Pancreatic Cancer
Sometimes it can seldom explain why one person gets pancreatic cancer and others do not, it is clear that the disease is not contagious. No one can “catch” cancer from another person.
Although scientists do not know exactly what causes pancreatic cancer, they learn that there are matches that increase the chances a person get this disease. Smoking is a key person is at risk factors. Research has shown that smokers develop pancreatic cancer two to three times more often than non-smokers. Quitting smoking means you reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, and a number of other diseases. Read the rest of this entry »
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What Is Pancreatic Cancer?
The definition of Pancreas
Pancreas is an organ shaped like a tube sponge / sponge approximately 6 inches in length. He is located behind the stomach, behind the stomach. Pancreatic head there on the right abdomen. He is connected to the duodenum (intestine two fingers behind), the upper end of the small intestine. The narrow end of the pancreas, called the tail, extends to the left side of the body.
The pancreas makes pancreatic juices and hormones, including insulin. Pancreatic juices, also called enzymes, help digest food in the small intestine. Insulin controls the amount of sugar in the blood. Both enzymes and hormones necessary to maintain the body work properly.
When pancreatic juices are made, they flow into the main channel of the pancreas. These channels join the common bile duct (common bile duct), which connects the pancreas to the liver and gallbladder. Common bile duct, which carry bile (a fluid that helps digest fat), connects to the small intestine near the stomach. Read the rest of this entry »