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Dad diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at 42 recalls ‘difficult’ symptom that sent him to doctor
Pifani visited several doctors and they agreed he had Stage 3, inoperable pancreatic cancer. The tumor encased part of the superior mesenteric artery, an important artery that supplies blood to the ...
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New Test Detects Early Pancreatic Cancer with 85% Accuracy — and Researchers Say It Costs ‘Less Than a Penny’
Pancreatic cancer has a low survival rate and is usually found too late — this new test may help change that Getty Researchers have developed an inexpensive blood test that they say can detect p ...
Nature4y
A holistic approach to pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is a resilient killer whose ... For a 70-year-old patient with advanced-stage cancer invading a superior mesenteric artery, we first used chemotherapy to reduce the tumour.
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Distal Pancreatectomy and Splenectomy
pancreatic pseudocysts, and injury due to trauma. When the disease affects the splenic artery or vein, the adjacent spleen is often removed. After removal of the end of the pancreas, the remaining ...
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Health worker with cancer says 'get issues checked'
Clair Honeywood thought her pancreatic cancer was IBS ... but the tumour had wrapped around an artery "making it virtually inoperable". "My whole world fell apart," she said.