As a premise to understand pancreatic cancer, you will understand pancreas.
For a position, you have shape that you are slightly slim with the internal organs in the leaning to the left from the middle of the epigastric pit of the stomach and navel.
You take a function to secrete amylase and the lipase which are a digestive enzyme, the secretion of the pancreatic juice including an avian pre-no gene and a hormone such as insulin and the glucagon.
As a symptom when you suffered from pancreatic cancer, there are a stomachache and lumbago, the back ache, crossing, inappetence, weight reduction, a thing such as the lassitude of the whole body.
Because it is a symptom with being generated for other diseases, there is not a characteristic sign.
In addition, most of the early cases do not have awareness and have been already worse when they noticed.
Actually, at the stage that took a diagnosis, the patient of about 70% is in a condition not to be able to have an operation.
The complete recovery without the operation is difficult, but the survival rate lowers very even if the patient who cannot operate on it at a discovered stage occupies the majority and was able to remove a lesion surgically because probability to recur is high.
It is not high cancer of the prevalence as stomach cancer and large bowel cancer, but the death rate becomes very high.
Generally it is said that cancer is to take a periodic medical examination, and early detection is important.
This is a fact.
However, the examination cannot discover cancer by all means.
There is the probability to overlook, but these are different by a kind and a part of the cancer, the progress degree.
Even if it received a clinical survey and a medical examination at the stage of the early case in the case of the pancreatic cancer, missed probability is high, and it is a characteristic that early detection is difficult.
When you were discovered, there can be the thing that it is the terminal state that the remaining days have a short.
You become so as to be worse that the treatment results are not desirable.
It vividly understands that you divide it into a stage of a disease (a stage) and watch a survival rate.
The survival rate falls for five years so that a stage advances.
