Do you think that the largest number of lung cancers and deaths can be called the king of cancer? wrong!
The truly terrible malignant tumor, known as the cancer king, that can make doctors feel helpless, is actually "pancreatic cancer"!
The pancreas is originally an inconspicuous organ in the human body, it is in the deepest part of the abdominal cavity, but it has a very important function, its function is to secrete pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes, insulin.
Therefore, the essence of the pancreas is a digestive gland. After the pancreas becomes cancerous, patients do not have typical manifestations, but only have symptoms similar to stomach diseases and indigestion. Therefore, the diagnosis rate of pancreatic cancer in the early stage in China is extremely low, and patients reach the advanced stage when diagnosing the disease.
Due to the extremely high degree of malignancy and rapid development rate of pancreatic cancer, the special location of the pancreas makes the operation more difficult, and pancreatic cancer is not sensitive enough to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, after reaching the advanced stage, the treatment of pancreatic cancer is quite difficult, and most pancreatic cancer patients die in just one year, months or even a few weeks after the diagnosis of the disease!
According to the current clinical data, pancreatic cancer is a malignant tumor with an incidence and mortality rate of almost equal to 1:1, and the prognosis effect is extremely poor.
So the question is, there is hope for treatment in the early stage of pancreatic cancer, and patients really can't find the disease? What are its symptoms?
1. Abdominal pain
Pain is the most typical and important symptom of pancreatic cancer, and patients may feel pain no matter where the pancreas is specifically cancerous.
Because the pancreas is behind the human peritoneum and close to the position of the stomach, its initial pain is manifested as a dull pain and tingling pain in the right upper quadrant or middle upper quadrant from time to time, and then the pain gradually deepens, and even can spread throughout the abdomen, and the pain in some patients can also spread to the external reproductive organs, which is easily confused with other diseases;
2. Jaundice
Jaundice is also the main symptom of pancreatic cancer, especially after the cancer of the pancreatic head. This is so because the pancreas is located fairly close to the common bile duct, and the pancreatic head is close to the common bile duct. Once the pancreatic cancer begins to compress and metastasize towards the lower bile duct, it can lead to obstruction and progressive jaundice, which is manifested as terracotta color of stool, dark yellow of urine, and yellow staining of skin throughout the body.
In addition, when the cancer of the pancreatic body or tail of the pancreas progresses to an advanced stage and metastasizes the liver, patients may also develop jaundice symptoms, and 1/4 of them will be combined with refractory skin itching;
3, Anorexia
As mentioned above, the most important work of the pancreas is to be responsible for secreting pancreatic juice containing various digestive enzymes, and its main function is to assist the digestion and absorption of the stomach and intestines, and at the same time to neutralize the effect of gastric juice.
When the pancreas becomes cancerous, the function of the pancreas itself will be damaged, resulting in abnormal secretion of pancreatic juice, and after the cancer compresses the common bile duct, the bile can not smoothly enter the duodenum, so the patient has digestive tract disorders, the most typical manifestation of which is decreased appetite, no appetite, followed by nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation and so on.
Pancreatic cancer after entering advanced stages, patients can also develop steatorrhea symptoms due to fat digestion and absorption disorders;
4. Wasting performance
Although most solid cancers can cause patients to have symptoms of wasting, the emaciation caused by cancerous changes in other organs generally occurs in the middle and advanced stages of cancer, but pancreatic cancer is different.
In the early stage of pancreatic cancer, affected by the rapid growth rate of cancer cells and the destruction of the internal and external secretion function of the pancreas, patients can have symptoms of emaciation in the early stage, and even about 10% of the weight can be lost in just a few months.
Written at the end: Pancreatic cancer is the real king of cancer, and the more pancreatic cancer enters the development stage, the worse the prognosis will be.
Therefore, everyone in life can not ignore any abnormalities in the body, especially the original family history of pancreatic cancer, diabetes history, acute and chronic pancreatic disease history and other major groups, should be regularly screened for cancer, once similar symptoms appear, it is necessary to actively seek medical examination.