Pancreatic cancer (carcinoma of the pancreas) - a malignant tumor that develops from cells of the pancreas.
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By precancerous conditions include chronic pancreatitis, cysts and benign tumors of the pancreas. The incidence of pancreatic cancer may be associated with smoking, diabetes, exposure to asbestos. Risk of pancreatic carcinoma significantly increased in patients with hereditary forms of pancreatitis.
Risk factors for pancreatic cancer
It is known that 40% of cases of carcinoma of the pancreas are sporadic, ie, affecting some individuals, 30% attributed to s... Read more »
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Symptoms of cancer of the pancreatic head can be divided into two periods. In the early stages of the disease a little worried sick, and they do not seek medical help. The first warning signs of the disease is often a pain in the epigastrium and hypochondria sometimes radiating to the back (shingles pain), with the increase of intensity during the night. Possible Thrombophlebitis migratory nature. In what is characteristic of progressive weight loss without any clea... Read more »
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The disease is not always the proceeds so typical, and diagnosis in some cases, presents considerable difficulties, especially in cancer of the body and tail of the pancreas. At the thought of pancreatic cancer must try to build such things as the elderly patients, jaundice in the absence of indications of gallstone disease in the past, without a fever for jaundice.
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Treatment of pancreatic cancer - one of the most complex sections of oncology. Difficulties of treatment, primarily due to the fact that patients with pancreatic cancer - is elderly and senile age with a mass of opportunistic diseases and widespread neoplastic processes involving the adjacent organs.
Surgical treatment at the present stage is a leading treatment for pancreatic cancer. Distinguish between radical ... Read more »
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Waiver of smoking. Elimination of the influence of harmful environmental factors, occupational hazards (asbestos dust).
Early treatment of chronic pancreatitis, diabetes mellitus. Systematic preventive examinations in the presence of cysts and benign tumors of the pancreas, family history hereditary forms of pancreatitis.
Which doctors should contact if you have cancer of the pancreas:
Oncologist
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