Pancreas Cancer

Localization

Pancreas is a gland that produces insulin, hormones, juice and food digested juice. Cancer from the pancreas gland are layer ducts. Pancreas divided to the head, body and tail. Cancer are from the gland spleen to the heart, lungs and peritoneum. There are 32,000 cases a year in the United States, unfortunately high level of death caused by disease and surgery that were difficult and complex.

Cancer pancreas risk factors

• Facts food such as sugar and coffee. Smoking and diabetes can also cause chronic pancreatitis.
• The number of male cancer high compared with women (2:1). The average age is 65 years. United States Africa nation to confirm the disease is higher than the Asian people.

Smallpox

• Pancreas cancer is always associated with stomach because cancer position toward the other fellow. Sometimes is difficult to ensure cancer from where it began.

Symptom

• Jaundice symptom is the most common found because of pressure on the duktus .The urine yellow thick, yellow skin, yellow eyes, pale-colored excrement and body itch.
• Apart from the patient will decrease body weight, nausea;
• a sense of weariness and pain in the stomach billing.

Diagnosis

• Clinical examination, the patient will show jaundice, liver cirrhosis.
• Abdominal Ultra Sound, Endoscope 'retrograde cholangiopankreatografi' by biopsy.
• Using a landmark Protein tumors such as CEA and CA 19-9.

Treatment

• surgery, cancer up to a location on the pancreas, size and stage of the cancer. Cancer head of pancreas can be operated with the need once part of the small intestine, stomach, spleen and hempedu. This is a surgery that large and complex that can be sold if cancer is small and would not again.
• Cases in which tumors are large or have been allowed to use the methods of radiation and chemotherapy.

Treatment continuation

• Protein extracts stage indication cancer

Prevention

• control diabetes with chic.
• stop smoking
• create a blood test to sign Protein cancer.