Is a pancreatic tumor dangerous?

Pancreatic tumor caused the premature departure from the life of Luciano Pavarotti, Alan Rickman, Steve Jobs, Patrick Swayze, Umberto Eco and many others.

If the disease claimed the lives of people who were people's favorites and who had access to almost unlimited money, is it possible to successfully treat pancreatic cancer and what is its prognosis?

Is it likely that treatment with folk methods or a special diet will help with this diagnosis?

Pancreas - tender queen

In addition to the gastrointestinal tract, a hollow tube between the oral and anal openings, which includes the esophagus, stomach and intestines, the hepabiliary organs( liver, gallbladder and ducts) and pancreas enter the digestive system.

When even one element falls out of the system, its performance decreases.

For example, after cholecystectomy - removal of the gallbladder - the liver takes over its functions, and a person can lead a full life.

However, it is necessary to revise the diet, and the diet becomes a condition for well-being.

But the pancreas does not just replace it:

• The pancreas produces the basic enzymes for digesting food, which makes it queen of digestion. Enzymes break down fats, proteins and carbohydrates into components that go to the construction, repair, nutrition and energy of cells;The
• organ produces proteolytic enzymes that activate pancreatic enzymes, interfering with their activity within the body and digesting their own tissues;
• pancreas produces a series of hormones that regulate the amount of pancreatic juice and enzymes;
• endocrine gland function is to produce hormones for the regulation of carbohydrate balance in the body. Two hormones, glucagon and insulin, increase and lower the level of glucose, maintaining it at a certain level.

Violation of any of these functions leads to serious disruptions in the body.

A whole chain of disorders develops, which can lead to such serious conditions as acute and chronic pancreatitis, diabetes mellitus and even malignant tumor.

Gastroenterologists often call the pancreas the most gentle organ.

Various medical manipulations can lead to severe disruption in her work, one of which can be a malignant tumor.

The pancreas is located behind the stomach, has an elongated shape, which can be divided into three main parts: head, body and tail.

The head covers and envelops the horseshoe duodenum, which, as it were, separates the gland and liver. The tail of the organ is in contact with the spleen.

Malignant pancreatic lesions

The classification of stages of pancreatic cancer includes 4 stages:

1. a pancreatic tumor less than 2 cm in diameter. There are no new foci of malignant cells, which are commonly called metastases;
2. tumor more than 2 cm, but adjacent lymph nodes have not yet metastasized;
3. , regardless of the size of the tumor, single metastases penetrated the nearby lymph nodes;
4. is a tumor of any size with distant metastases.

Treatment has a relatively favorable prognosis only in the early stages of the disease, but is usually diagnosed at later stages.

In contrast to stomach cancer, signs appear early, but the symptoms are not specific. Pain in the early stages often gives in the back, so it is usually taken for symptoms of radiculitis.

The causes of malignant processes in the pancreas are not known, there is a classification combining the signs, the combination of which allows us to speak about the increased risk of getting sick.

However, in themselves they are not factors causing the disease: male sex, age over 60 years, smoking, obesity, diabetes, heredity, a certain degree of alcoholism.

There is a separate classification of precancerous diseases:

• chronic hepatitis;
• benign pancreatic tumor( adenoma);
• cystic education.

Some psychologists point to fear of becoming ill as a cause of cancer development.

This theory is not supported by real facts, but fear reduces the quality of life of even healthy people.

The combination of various risk factors is an excuse not to be afraid, but to change the way of life: to abandon bad habits, to change food, to bring order and attention to one's own state.

Even if a healthy lifestyle does not protect against cancer, then it will make the years off more happy and full.

A healthy person does not need a diet, but the Pevsner's diet No. 5 allows you to determine the principles by which a sparing diet is administered and applied in the daily diet, especially in the presence of precancerous pathologies of the pancreas.

Classification of pancreatic cancer divides tumors into endocrine( neuroendocrine) and exocrine, depending on the function of cells that have degenerated into malignant ones.

The most common neuroendocrine tumor is insulinoma. It accounts for over two-thirds of all tumors of this type.

The second most common neuroendocrine organ tumor, gastrinoma, can occur outside the organ in the small intestine.

Classification of tumors is important, as the variety affects the symptoms of the disease, allows you to diagnose and plan treatment.

Pancreas Surgery

Successful treatment of pancreatic cancer by folk remedies is impossible. Chemotherapy alone is used only when treatment with other drugs is excluded, and it helps to slow the development of the tumor.

The main treatment that can dramatically change the situation is surgery. Operations to remove the pancreas began to be carried out at the end of the XIX century.

Then surgical treatment in 95 - 100% of cases ended with the death of the patient.

Modern medicine has reduced postoperative mortality to 5%, but the forecast of treatment of pancreatic cancer even with modern medical devices is still conditionally unfavorable.

Surgical treatment is possible only in 10 - 15% of cases, if the condition is not burdened by metastases. In all other cases, treatment is aimed at reducing symptoms and reducing pain.

The tumor of the head of the pancreas is one of the most common, the Whipple operation is used to remove it, in which, together with the tumor tissue, the head of the pancreas, the gallbladder, the duodenum and stomach, and the lymph nodes located in this area are removed.

Half of the patients undergoing surgery die 15 to 19 months after the operation. Five years about 20% of the operated.

If for some reason the tumor can not be completely removed, then the disease recurs and the signs of the disease appear again, the cancer goes to the liver and other nearby organs, which adds new symptoms to the picture of the disease.

Even with such disappointing data, the operation is a chance to live. If the operation is impossible, the survival prognosis is several times worse.

Figures show why pancreatic cancer is considered one of the most dangerous diagnoses.

There is such a thing as palliative surgery. The treatment is not aimed at eliminating the cause of the patient's poor state - a tumor, but in relieving the state of health.

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During the operation, the symptoms are resolved: the intestinal patency is restored, the causes of mechanical jaundice.

Any palliative treatment aims to provide the patient with a worthy, painless life in which he will not be tormented by symptoms on the threshold of eternity.

Lifetime or quality?

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most terrible diagnoses that can be heard at a doctor's appointment.

In the vast majority of cases, it means that death has ceased to be something abstract. It is difficult to accept the finiteness of one's own life, but it is even more difficult to realize that death will not be easy and painless.

Approximately 7% of people have pancreatic cancer detected in the first to second stages, when it has not yet reached the pancreas.

Timely diagnostics people are obliged to individual characteristics of the body, when the symptoms manifested early or the case when a person is treating another organ, for example, the liver, and during the examination it turns out that the symptoms are early manifestations of the tumor.

Even in this "favorable" case, the five-year survival rate does not exceed 45%, and the average one is even lower.

Surgical intervention, radiation and chemotherapy not so much give hope for healing, how many new symptoms add.

In this case, even the diet does not provide good digestion, nutrition often becomes a torture, the state of health worsens.

Patients are frightened by death, but the need to die in agony scares even more. Therefore, people grab at the straw in the form of treatment with folk remedies.

Cancer is not fully understood, so unexplained remissions occur. Sometimes this coincides with the treatment of folk remedies.

Scientists have noticed that in some cases, cancer even goes to the hopeless stages of people who radically change their way of life, including their place of residence.

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New conditions: climate, nutrition, maybe even treatment with folk remedies - no one knows why in some cases the hopeless patients recover, while in others those who are chances for recovery are judged to be high enough.

Treatment with folk remedies can include a variety of methods, among them diet, herbal preparations, a certain regimen.

Many people refuse treatment in the hospital to spend the rest of their lives among close people.

In this case, diet, remedies against pain and a phantom hope for a miracle become the only allies.

Is it possible to blame people who do not do their best to prolong life even briefly? Only those who have a similar fate have the right to judge this.