When you doubt the possibility of the pancreatic cancer in a medical institution, you usually take abdominal ultrasonography, abdomen CT (computer computer tomography), abdomen MRI (a magnetic resonance imaging) for an examination for image by the measurement of the tumor marker for a blood test.
These inspection puts a burden on a body almost; there is not it, and it is possible, but there seems to be much it when it is difficult to find early pancreatic cancer (pancreatic cancer) even if do only this.
In the case of early pancreatic cancer (pancreatic cancer), it does not seem to be rare that abnormality does not appear by the blood test at all.
As well as the laboratory procedure that you spoke for the inspection of the pancreatic cancer (pancreatic cancer) earlier, there is the inspection that you used an endoscope such as supersonic wave endoscope (EUS) and backward movement characteristics liver pancreatic duct contrasting (ERCP) of the endoscope for.
Endoscopic backward movement-related liver pancreatic duct contrasting (ERCP) has high discovery rate of the pancreatic cancer,
Other than technical difficulty, complications such as the pancreatitis may be generated, and the point that a burden is big is given for the patient.
