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What are the first signs of pancreatic cancer?- Treatments

Pancreatic cancer firstly begins in the tissues of your pancreas( lower part of the stomach) — an organ in your abdomen that lies horizontally behind the lower part of your stomach. Your pancreas releases some enzymes that aid digestion and hormones that help manage your blood sugar( that help regulate the metabolism of sugars).

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What are the first signs of pancreatic cancer?- Treatments

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  1. What are the first signs of pancreatic cancer? — Treatments Pancreatic cancer firstly begins in the tissues of your pancreas( lower part of the stomach) — an organ in your abdomen that lies horizontally behind the lower part of your stomach. Your pancreas releases some enzymes that aid digestion and hormones that help manage your blood sugar( that help regulate the metabolism of sugars). In pancreatic cancer, there are no symptoms in the early stages of this disease. But later stages are associated with symptoms, but these can be non-specific, such as lack of appetite and unexplained weight loss. In the US Fewer than 200,000 US cases per year of this disease. Pancreatic cancer affects mostly 40–70 of age group people. Following is the age chart, which shows which age group is most affected by this type of cancer—

  2. Signs of pancreatic cancer— There are no symptoms in the early stages. but after some time when later stages started then some sign of pancreatic cancer show in the body. Some sign of pancreatic cancer is given below— Pain in the upper abdomen or back, often spreading from around the stomach to the back. Unexplained weight loss At least 50% of people with pancreatic adenocarcinoma have diabetes at the time of diagnosis. Depression New-onset diabetes Blood clots Fatigue Yellowing of your skin and the whites of your eyes (jaundice) Treatments— Pancreatic cancer treatments are many types like, may include surgically removing the pancreas, radiation, and chemotherapy. and medication also to control this disease. some point of treatment is given below—

  3. 1.Medications— Chemotherapy— Kills cells that are growing or multiplying too quickly. Chemotherapy protective drugs— Reduces the side effects of chemotherapy treatment. 2.Medical procedure— Radiation therapy 3.Surgery— surgery to remove pancreatic tumors Pancreatectomy 4.Supportive care— Palliative care Works to improve quality of life while adjusting or recovering from a serious illness. 5.Specialists— Oncologist Palliative medicine General surgeon Gastroenterologist As per some recent researches, One may manage healthy live with pancreatic cancer. Your doctor may advise prescription drugs to control the growth of cancer cells.

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