pancreas cancer

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Friday, March 14, 2008

The most common symptoms of pancreatic cancer is jaundice

Pancreatic cancer if early treated, the survival change is very high if the cancers are surgically removed while the tumor is still small and had not spread to others parts of the lymph nodes. It is the forth deadly killer cancer among men and women around the world. Pancreas is located deep in the abdomen and between our stomach and spine. Due to its location most of the symptom of pancreas when unnotice until the tumor grows large enough to interfere with the function of nearby structures such as the stomach, duodenum, liver, or gallbladder.

Most of the early symptoms of pancreatic cancer are abdominal pain and may then spread to others parts of the body, It is cause by our tumor press against the organs and nerves in our abdominal cavity. This pain will then spreads to others others parts of the pain. The pains will sometimes occur very often in our stomach or will occur once in a while. Loss of appetite and weight loss due to changes of appetite. The most common symptoms of pancreatic cancer is jaundice due to the bile flow gets blocked by the tumors. This results in yellowing of the skin, which is characteristic of jaundice.

Others symptoms are itching which are cause by excessive bile accumulating in the skin. having digestive problems and later cause nausea may be result in blockage of the digestive tract. This pancreatic cancer are more in the advanced stage.