2008-07-15

Early detection of pancreatic cancer in your


As people improve the standard of living, pancreatic cancer incidence rates have increased year by year trend. However, no specific symptoms of pancreatic cancer. Vulnerable and the first symptom of gastrointestinal, liver and gall diseases such as confusion. On the first symptom to surgical resection, or about 50 percent, unfortunately, is the first symptom is often a doctor or patient neglect and delays in diagnosis.
Bao Zhang, abdominal pain or discomfort is the first symptom of pancreatic cancer. However, patients often went by medical or other treatment. So vast majority of patients to surgical treatment, the disease is advanced. When the invasion of pancreatic cancer plexus or chronic pancreatitis, severe abdominal pain, the endless day and night, when the invasion of pancreatic cancer in jaundice or oppression of common bile duct, duodenum invasion or stomach, nausea, vomiting or hematemesis, black excrement, , The surgical resection of pancreatic cancer patients was only about 15 percent, after five-year survival rate is only 10 percent. Therefore, the recent meeting of the International Academic Conference of pancreatic disease in the early pancreas to strengthen the vigilance and monitoring of high-risk groups. Due to abdominal pain, jaundice, abdominal on the fitness, digestive discomfort, suffering from weight loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or unexpected reasons, such as treatment of diabetes patients should take into account the possibility of pancreatic cancer. And the age of more than 40-year-old, non-specific symptoms on the abdomen; family history of pancreatic cancer; sudden diabetes, especially non-typical diabetes, lack of family history, no obesity, insulin insurgents quickly formed; chronic pancreatitis, In particular the family of chronic pancreatitis and chronic patients with calcification of the pancreas to strengthen monitoring.
Surgical resection is the treatment of pancreatic cancer under the current conditions under the conditions of treatment of the most effective means of pancreatic cancer. B-ultrasound and CT can check out less than two centimeters of pancreatic cancer, endoscopic ultrasound can detect even smaller than one centimeter to the tiny pancreatic cancer. Tumors smaller than 2 centimeters of small pancreatic cancer surgical resection rate was around 90 percent, after five-year survival rate of up to 80 percent. Therefore, your treatment of pancreatic cancer in the early diagnosis and early detection.