According to Fars News Agency’s health correspondent, Hamidreza Dehghan Manshadi, a radioncologist specializing in pancreatic cancer, said: “Pancreatic cancer is one of the relatively rare cancers of the gastrointestinal tract and early diagnosis of this disease helps to treat patients and in other words successful treatment of this disease is very It is important.
He pointed out that the pancreas is a place for the secretion of insulin in the body and helps digestion and absorption of food in the gastrointestinal tract, he said: This organ plays an important role in the human body; Therefore, its dysfunction can cause problems for infected people.
“Usually, the symptoms of pancreatic cancer appear late and it is a kind of silent disease, and most of the time, when the disease reaches an advanced stage, the symptoms appear in the person,” said the radiologist.
“Vague abdominal pain and jaundice can be common symptoms of pancreatic cancer,” he said, noting that pancreatic cancer usually occurs in people in their 50s and 70s. This is because when the pancreatic mass blocks the bile ducts, the bile will return to the bloodstream and cause jaundice; Embolism and blood disorders can also be other symptoms of this cancer; Therefore, it can sometimes be difficult for specialists to diagnose this disease.
Manshadi pointed out: “Therefore, we recommend people to see a doctor as soon as possible in case of gastrointestinal upset and vague and prolonged pain in the abdomen or jaundice that occurs in old age, so that the initial diagnosis can be made by ultrasound and endoscopy. If necessary, a biopsy should be performed.
“Pancreatic tumors have not been biopsied before because doctors thought they were dangerous and the biopsy might cause more harm to patients,” he said. The patient will be a candidate for surgery and additional treatments will be performed for him in the form of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
He said: “But if the disease is more advanced, first radiotherapy and chemotherapy is done to reduce the size of the tumor and then the patient is ready for surgery.”
Manshadi said: “Unfortunately, the mortality rate of patients with pancreatic cancer is high and until a few years ago these patients did not survive even more than two years, but now the situation has improved and if the disease is diagnosed in the early stages and the disease is not metastasized, the person Can live for years.
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