Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer is a disease that affects the pancreas among other diseases. It is one of the most dangerous types of cancer because its symptoms only appear in advanced stages, after the cancer has spread to the pancreas. Medical experts state that 60% of pancreatic cancer patients die shortly after the disease is discovered. Age is an important factor in infection. It has been found that the majority of pancreatic cancer patients, aged between seventy and eighty, but if the disease is discovered early, the cancer is in its early stages, and can be removed because it is small in size.
Causes of Pancreatic Cancer
- Smoking: It is a very bad habit that does not lead to the onset of a specific cancer, but its problems on a personal and public level are associated with the occurrence of cancers, not a single cancer.
- Obesity: Weight gain affects all parts of the body, including the pancreas, and obesity poses a burden on blood vessels and glands and is associated with the appearance of pancreatic cancer.
- Individuals who have a family member with a history of pancreatic cancer are at risk of developing pancreatic cancer.
- Age: As we mentioned, the incidence of pancreatic cancer increases for those who have crossed seventy to eighty years of age.
- Individuals who have a family tendency to develop abnormal genetic mutations.
- Diabetes: It plays a major role in the incidence of pancreatic cancer.
- Alcohol consumption.
- Exposure to chemicals for a long time.
Symptoms of Pancreatic Cancer
- Dark urine is one of the symptoms of pancreatic cancer.
- Weight loss: Because a person with pancreatic cancer cannot eat due to frequent nausea and vomiting, in addition to digestive and stomach disorders, and the body cannot digest food because the pancreas produces digestive juice, and its cancerous growth stops the secretion of this digestive juice, and therefore the digestive system stops functioning, and therefore weight loss.
- Loss of appetite is one of the symptoms of pancreatic cancer.
- Patients with pancreatic cancer suffer from stress and fatigue.
- Pale stool color, and the stool floats in the toilet.
- Yellowing of the skin and eyes, which is caused by an increase in the proportion of bilirubin due to obstruction of the bile duct in the duodenum, and this is known as jaundice.
- Sharp abdominal pain.
- Itching of the skin.
Risks of Pancreatic Cancer Surgery
- Infection in the digestive system, or in the abdomen.
- The subsequent suffering from temporary or permanent diabetes, as the excised part of the pancreas may include the endocrine glands that secrete insulin and glucagon, which are responsible for maintaining blood sugar levels.
- Bleeding at the site of surgery.
- Stomach problems related to delayed emptying, etc.
- Leakage in the pancreas, or the bile duct junction.
