A serious disease that can affect everyone is pancreatic cancer. Its reasons have not yet been established by scientists and doctors. However, despite this, doctors recommend that you pay attention to factors that are very likely to lead to this very complex form of cancer.
A large role is played by genetic predisposition. There are special factors that often cause malignant tumors. Profession and working conditions also have their own weight. This is especially true for those people who work for many years in enterprises associated with the production or use of harmful chemicals and substances.
It may sound strange, but some diseases also lead to pancreatic cancer. First of all, it is pancreatitis in a chronic course and diabetes mellitus. Even the wrong type of food is the cause of this terrible disease. If there are few fresh sources of vitamins (vegetables, berries and fruits) on the table, and the menu consists mainly of a lot of meat and fats - this is an occasion to reflect and revise your habits.
A fashionable smoking habit really kills, therefore, it significantly increases the risk of cancerous tumors. Finally, men aged 50 years are increasingly affected by this disease than women and young men.
According to statistics, courageously transfer pancreatic cancer, the symptoms of which have not yet been fully determined, only 4% of patients succeed. The rest, unfortunately, are dying. Which suggests that this form of oncology is really very dangerous and serious.
Main symptoms
Quite often, when pancreatic cancer develops, symptoms are simply absent. In this case, there is the possibility of only small signs.
The first is pain in the spine. It can occur spontaneously and occur periodically. There are times when it comes and is permanent. Secondly, bile begins to stand out. The eyeballs and the entire skin of a person who has pancreatic cancer instantly turns yellow. Symptoms may concern general well-being. So, fatigue is very characteristic. After all, a tumor takes a lot of energy. Unnoticed kilograms disappear. The patient ceases to eat, appetite decreases sharply.
Finally, the stool may change. Feces become very light and resemble mucus. If the doctor suspects pancreatic cancer, the symptoms also speak in favor of this, then you should additionally take tests of both urine and blood.
Complex treatment
The most effective treatment for this disease is surgery. True, not every patient can withstand the operation. Often, it is prescribed to fairly young patients in whom the tumor is localized only within the pancreas.
If after surgery there are small foci of cancer, doctors prescribe radiotherapy. It is also used before surgery, in order to increase the chances of a complete removal of the tumor and recovery of the patient.
In the case when surgery is not possible, but pancreatic cancer is detected , treatment can be carried out with chemotherapy. She, unfortunately, does not eliminate the tumor forever, but will alleviate the condition of the patient. Hormone therapy also helps prolong the patient's life and improve his health a little. With unbearable pain in a patient, doctors prescribe injections of special chemical drugs.
Complete removal of the pancreatic tumor does not always lead to the recovery of patients. Many have relapses. This is because cancer cells in small quantities still remain in the body. And only a small proportion of patients are cured forever of this terrible disease.