Your pancreatic cancer in the early diagnosis

Saturday, March 29, 2008 · Posted in

With improved living standards Pancreatic cancer incidence rates are increasing year by year trends. However, no specific symptoms of pancreatic cancer. The first symptom vulnerable and gastrointestinal, liver and biliary diseases such as confused. The first symptom surgical resection on the trip to about 50 percent, unfortunately is the first symptom is often overlooked by doctors or patients delay in diagnosis.
The abdominal pain or upper abdominal discomfort is the first symptom of pancreatic cancer. Yet patients often went by medical or other treatment. Therefore, the vast majority of patients to surgical treatment, the condition is advanced. When pancreatic cancer invasion plexus or chronic pancreatitis, severe abdominal pain, endless night when when pancreatic cancer invasion or oppression in the common bile duct jaundice, stomach or duodenal invasion, nausea, vomiting or hematemesis, when black fecal , in patients with pancreatic cancer surgical resection rate was only about 15%, the survival rate after five years is only 10 percent. So a recent conference of the International Academic Conference of the pancreas to strengthen the vigilance of early pancreatic and monitoring high-risk groups. Because of the abdominal pain, jaundice, abdominal on the fitness, digestive discomfort, suffering from weight loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or unexpected treatment of diabetic patients and other reasons, should take into account the possibility of pancreatic cancer. And the age greater than 40 years of age, are non-specific symptoms of upper abdominal; family history of pancreatic cancer; sudden diabetes, particularly those in atypical diabetes, the lack of family history, no obesity, insulin insurgents quickly formed; chronic pancreatitis, in particular familial chronic pancreatitis and chronic patients with calcification of the pancreas to strengthen monitoring.
Surgical resection is the treatment of pancreatic cancer under present conditions under the conditions of treatment of the most effective means of pancreatic cancer. Ultrasound and CT can check out the pancreatic cancer is less than 2 cm, endoscopic ultrasound can detect even a little less than one centimeter of pancreatic cancer. The tumor is less than 2 centimeters of small pancreatic cancer surgical resection rate was about 90 percent, the survival rate after five years up to 80%. So your treatment of pancreatic cancer in the early diagnosis and early detection.

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