General Medical Advices

Over 90% of patients have generally the following:

* Pain in the upper or middle abdomen
* Jaundice (yellow skin)
* Weight Loss
* Nausea.

Other symptoms may also occur, as the case are:

* Acute pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)
* Diabetes mellitus
* Weakness
* Diarrhea
* Spasms

Prevention

The best way to prevent pancreatic cancer is to avoid some risk factors like smoking, a diet rich in meat and fat and exposure to certain chemicals (pesticides, dyes and petroleum products). People newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer tend to respond by showing a state of shock and stress. These reactions may hinder the relationship between doctor and patient. For this reason, it is important to use the affected systems (annotations written or recorded) to remember your doctor’s directions and, if it deems necessary, all the questions you want to perform. The different ways of tackling the disease can include:

* Having the support of aid groups. It is also advisable that the patient contact with any of the associations devoted to advise and assist people affected by these diseases.
* Eat a balanced diet can help patients feel better, have energy to deal with treatment and coping as best as possible.
* Being immersed in a social environment (friends and family), which provides understanding and moral support.

Diagnostics

If you have symptoms, the doctor makes a recognition and orders tests to see if there’s cancer and determine what should be the treatment. The main diagnostic tests are:

* Ultrasound or ultrasound (sound waves are used to detect tumors).
* Computerized tomography (CT): a special type of x-ray with that obtained by computer, an image inside the abdomen.
* Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which uses magnetic waves to create an image inside the abdomen, and see if the cancer is partially blocking the blood supply to an organ not affected.
* Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Is to introduce the throat a flexible tube that passes through the stomach and reaches the small intestine. The doctor can look through the tube and inject a dye so that the area can be seen most clearly on a radiograph.
* Biopsy: Inserting a thin needle into the pancreas to remove some cells. The cells can be observed after the microscope.
* The PTCA: a thin needle is inserted into the liver through the right side and injected dye into the bile ducts of the liver so that blockages can be seen on the radiograph.
* Surgery. The doctor makes a cut in the abdomen and observe the pancreas and surrounding tissues for the presence of cancer. If a cancer does not appear to have spread to other tissues, the doctor may remove the tumor.

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