Understanding of Pancreatic Cancer, What it is and how it diagnosed

Like many, you are saddened by Alex Tribk Pass, a long host of symbolic screens, danger. Torbic has just died due to pancreatic cancer, a disease will only affect more than 57,000 Americans in 2020. In honor of the pancreatic cancer month, which is recognized in November, here are some facts about pancreatic cancer that you need to know. You can join a pancreatic cancer support forum for daily updates.

What is pancreas?

Pancreas is one of our critical members. Approximately the size and shape of small salmon, deep in the upper abdomen between the twelve and the right liver and liver links. This is a column and our fisherman for our digestive system. The most common form of pancreatic cancer is called "adenocarcinoma." This type of cancer has only 2% of cancer, but when this happens, it usually becomes long notice or symptoms, so early detection is difficult. Often phase 3 or 4 they are diagnosed. In 2018, the third most common cause of death in relation to cancer, but in 2020, it leads to colon cancer to the second most common.

How is it diagnosed?

There are several ways to detect pancreatic cancer. Here is the most common. CT examination of the abdomen with the pancreatic protocol: In this experiment, special technical scientists are the fourth in front of the "landscape" of the pancreatic tumor. Sometimes patients with a block in the CT pancreas are discovered for another body. ERCP (Endoscopic Endoscopy): These measures of GI specialists are both methods used as a flexible tool, including a camera and overlooked, email, stomach and doo to evaluate the pancreas and many pipes in which Drainage Assessment.

Doctors have been given directly to the internal cover of these structures and often view the "observation" of the pancreatomor so that they can send small pieces of tissue (biopsy), which can send the laboratory to analyze the Ca19-9 microscope.. Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 is a complex molecule in the blood "tumor sign." Often, early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer has been investigated by obtaining a patient's blood sample. Later, after the treatment of pancreatic cancer, the level of Ca19-9 was periodically investigated and they increased, pointing that cancer could return. Diagnostic abdomen: This is a short process among general anesthesia that surgeons use a camera through a small cut, usually placed in the abdominal node region to consider the abdomen in a little tumor that can be in the abdomen.

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