Pancreatic Cancer

Another gastrointestinal tumors discussed under the framework of this meeting is pancreatic cancer, a type of cancer, in Spain, are detected each year more than 1500 cases, most of them in advanced stages. As explained by Dr. Fernando Rivera, Medical Oncology Service, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, “combination therapy in this cancer are leading to statistically significant increases in survival, so much so that in …read the rest of this entry»

It is believed that the hepatitis B virus causes inflammation or damage to DNA in the pancreas, which would increase the risk of cancer is revealed.

Exposure to hepatitis B virus may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, a study released by the Journal of Clinical Oncology. …read the rest of this entry»

According to studies conducted at the Center for Cancer Research UK, more precisely in Cambridge, has opened new alternatives for treating pancreatic cancer, which could reach better results than the treatments that are practiced in the today. …read the rest of this entry»

Beating the Odds with Pancreatic Cancer
Hi, my name is Roger and I’m 63 years old. I am a resident of Montana, but not all the time. I’m a Nebraskan. Moved out here about twenty years ago. Worked in a gold mine for twenty years. I’m married to a very loving wife. We got three children. We got six grandchildren.
In the beginning–our cancer problems go back a long ways. My wife had cancer eight years ago and we went through the whole ordeal while I was well and got her through. She is an eight-year veteran of breast cancer, and now I’m a two-year veteran of pancreatic cancer.
It all started off when I was operating heavy equipment in the mine. I was having problems keeping food down. It just kind of gradually came on, and finally I went to my local doctor and he ran a tube down my throat and really couldn’t tell anything. He got clear down to my stomach and said, “Well, it looks like a bruise down there.” But then he said, “I think I’ll have you go see a gastroenterologist in Bozeman.”
So I did that, and they tubed me once and said there was some problem with the duodenum, that they’d want to try it again. So they tried it again, and this time they put a balloon in there and blew it out and it collapsed again. So they kept me in the hospital over Christmas, this was in 1999, and did that every day for three days, and finally arrived at the decision that it wasn’t going to work. So they thought they’d have to do some surgery to correct this. Well, I got lined up on the second of February of 2000. …read the rest of this entry»

My name is Skip. I’m 71 years old, shortly to be 72. I live in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. I’m divorced and have four grown children. Other than that, there’s nothing particularly outstanding.
The episode that I had–and still have consequences from–was pancreatic cancer. The first symptoms appeared July 5, 1988. So that makes me 14 years down the road. I was 57 at the time, and had led a pretty healthy life. I had never been to a hospital for any reason except a broken leg–nothing really serious that I could think of. And I was also at the point in my life where I hadn’t ever really faced mortality. And so I didn’t think about it much.
But about five months prior to the first symptoms, I started to get a feeling that I wasn’t going to see 1989. Somehow I wasn’t going to get through the year. And that feeling persisted and actually grew stronger over the next few months. For some strange reason, I wasn’t upset with it–it was just like some kind of a quiet knowledge. Of course, feeling more or less immortal, I probably ignored it more than anything else.
The morning of July 5, 1988, I awoke and noticed that my eyes and my skin had taken on an orange cast, but I felt fine, I was in no discomfort. And that was a Saturday, so on Monday I called an internist that I had been to before–I very rarely went to the doctor prior to this–and had an appointment that afternoon.
Of course, the first thoughts coming from him were that it might be gallstones or something dealing with the gallbladder. Some tests were taken and sonograms were done, and so on. Anyway, that turned up negative. Then there were a number of tests after that, all of which weren’t really showing anything. And then finally on an X-ray, there was a tiny–there was a small shadow at the neck of the pancreas. So at that point, the diagnosis was painless jaundice. …read the rest of this entry»