Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer treatments and cures

About Pancreatic Cancer.

What is pancreatic cancer?

Pancreatic cancer is a tumor that develops in the pancreas.

The pancreas is an organ behind the stomach that helps you digest food by making digestive enzymes.
It makes hormones such as insulin and glucagon that helps to balance blood sugar.
Pancreatic cancer is difficult to detect early.

Often a person has symptoms such as back pain, weight loss, jaundice, or recent diagnosis of diabetes, but because the pancreas is deep inside the body, the doctor cannot see or feel tumors during a routine physical exam.

The conventional treatments for pancreatic cancer are surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, and depending on the stage of the cancer, more than one of these treatments are often used.

Video...Pancreatic cancer is difficult due to a lack of efficient screening for the disease, says Dr. Jennifer Ashton who has advice for those concerned about pancreatic cancer.

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