The pancreas is an organ, which
is found behind your stomach and its normal features is to make hormone, which
control glucose levels along with producing digestive juices, which help your
body to break down food. As per reports, more than 40,000 US citizens are the
victim of this form of cancer and are among the fourth most fatal reasons of
death in US alone. This kind of cancer arises when you find the cells found in
pancreas over glandular organ that multiplies if it remains untreated. The most
common types of cancer constitutes to around 85 percent of cases, while the
other forms of this kind of cancer are collectively seen making digesting
enzymes. Time to check the types and treatment options available for pancreatic
cancer as under:
Types of Pancreatic Cancer
When it comes to the types of
pancreatic cancer, there are several types, however, two are among the most
common or major one, which is as under:
Exocrine tumors: These are
among the most common forms of cancer, which originates in the pancreatic
ducts. These ducts are known for carrying the pancreatic juices over the
intestine, while this type of pancreatic cancer is also known as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Endocrine tumors: The other
most common kinds of cancer comprises of a group of tumors, which originates
from the cells that are known for making hormones like insulin. All these types
of tumors are known as pancreatic endocrine tumors.
Surgical removal of pancreatic cancer
The surgery dealing with removal
of the pancreatic cancer is known as potentially curative surgery. This is
among the complex surgeries as can cause a couple of complications delaying to
recover. Hence before opting for the surgery it is important to check the pros
and cons of the same. This procedure has different types and Whipple procedure
is among the common ones considered for removal of pancreatic cancer. During
the surgery, the surgeon is seen removing the head of the pancreas and at times
even the body of this organ as well along with the some nearby structures like
bile duct, small intestine, lymph nodes, etc. The small intestine is then
attached again so as to facilitate the passage of food sending the same to the
digestive tract. More often you can find this surgery being carried out with
laparoscopic approach, which starts with making one incision over the middle of
patient’s belly.
Surgical relief from symptoms
As said above, this surgery is
among the complex ones, hence are likely to be seen certain complications.
These can include certain infections, bleeding, and trouble while emptying the
stomach after eating, trouble in digesting some foods, changes experienced in
bowel habits and weight loss. In order to get rid of these complications one
may need another surgery to ease these symptoms.
Stenting for relief
from symptoms
Stenting is carried out generally to relieve the patients
from these symptoms. It is generally carried out with the procedure called
endoscopy, wherein the surgery inserts a flexible kind of tube known as
endoscope via your mouth and then he or she passes it to stomach. It has a
camera and light, which helps the doctor to check the problem, which he or she
can confirm with an x-ray if required. Once the surgeon finds out the blockage,
he or she can stretch the duct by putting the stent in place.
Chemotherapy
This procedure employs certain anti-cancer drugs, which is
injected via a vein or though the mouth. These drugs then enters in the
patient’s bloodstream, which in turn reaches out to all the areas of our body
thus making the treatment of cancer simple and stops the spread the cancer.
Radiotherapy
This procedure uses high energy rays in order to kill the
cancerous cells. The surgeons however, avoid using this procedure since it can
damage the healthy cells and can have certain severe kind of side effects. Thus
it is only used when other options fail as this procedure helps in killing the
cancerous cells at the pancreas.
Pancreatic Cancer
treatment
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