How to detect pancreatic cancer symptoms? How serious is pancreatic cancer?
How serious is pancreatic cancer? This is a difficult problem for all concerned. From the patient's viewpoint it is hard to categorize the early symptoms and the uncontrolled disease can be intolerable. For the surgeon it is often frustratingly impossible to remove the cancer with a real hope for cure. In most individuals the disease is encountered too late for total correction. Even when the cancer is removed, the longterm results are discouraging. The disease is so difficult to diagnose correctly that the majority of patients are treated for three to six months for another illness before his cancer becomes recognizable as the true cause. Is this a rare disease? No, actually it is very common. Certainly pancreatic cancer is being recognized with increasing frequency because of improved diagnostic techniques. How does it come about? What causes it? There is no information on this. We don't even have any suspicions. Whereas there is some suggestion that tumors elsewh...