Pancreatic cancer is called one of the most insidious oncological diseases. It can be asymptomatic for a long time and manifest itself only at an advanced stage.
According to academician, surgeon-oncologist Andrey Kaprin, in the coming years this type of cancer can become one of the three most common types of malignant neoplasms.
– The insidiousness of pancreatic cancer is due to the fact that stage I of detection accounts for only 6.4% of cases, and stage II – 16.8%. Everything else is the so-called “neglected”, third and fourth stages,, the physician noted in his telegram channel.
Two reasons interfere with detecting the disease in the early stages: >
- Wrong lifestyle – addiction to alcohol, smoking, unhealthy diet.
- Hereditary predisposition.
- Age over 65.
- Chronic pancreatitis.
Kaprin named three symptoms that should be a reason to see a doctor:
- abdominal pain (especially in its upper sections);
- nausea;
- heaviness and bloating after fatty foods.
It is not at all necessary that these signs indicate the presence of an oncological process, but you need to be examined.
According to According to doctors, pancreatic cancer is also manifested by the following symptoms:
- pain in the right hypochondrium, may radiate to the upper back;
- jaundice;
- unreasonable weight loss;
- enlargement of the spleen.
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