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5:43 am
May 9, 2010
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KJP22
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I know that no kind of cancer is good but I have heard those in the medical profession say that when the cancer gets in the pancreas that this is the worst possible scenario. Have you all heard this as well and if so I wonder what makes that true, or to be the common conception?
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2:34 am
May 11, 2010
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healthyguy
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I have heard this repeatedly as well. I believe it is referred to as that because it is one of, if not the most deadly kind of cancer. I believe the survival rate is well below 5%.
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4:16 am
May 11, 2010
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Piper
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7:37 am
October 24, 2010
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jaxter
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Post edited 12:16 pm – October 24, 2010 by jaxter
The symptoms of this kind of cancer are not very specific… namely loss of appetite, nausea,vomitting, pain in abdomen,general weakness etc., resulting in very late detection of the disease. Thus timely treatment is not possible in most of the cases. It is thus considered a silent killer.
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6:36 pm
October 25, 2010
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jerri
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Pancreatic cancer is aggressive. There are usually few symptoms until the cancer is advanced. Symptoms include abdominal pain, weight loss, diarrhea, and jaundice. Treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.
Cancer of the pancreas barely makes the top 10 most common cancers in the U.S. However, pancreatic cancer's tendency to spread silently before diagnosis makes it
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