Each year, more than 50,000 people in the U.S. die from pancreatic cancer, making it the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., per the National Cancer Institute. Here's what to know about pancreatic cancer.
The above symptoms tend to occur in later stages of the disease, and there are"no tell-tale signs" of early pancreatic cancer, but some patients will develop"vague" symptoms up to a year before they get diagnosed, per Cleveland Clinic. For example, many patients have back or stomach pain leading up to their diagnosis. Early symptoms may come and go or get worse after meals or when lying down.
"What happens a lot of times is people either think it's just acid reflux, that they ate something funny or they ascribe it to some other thing for a while," he adds."They'll see their doctors and many of them will be started on acid reflux medicines or other things targeting general stomach issues. That's why I emphasize anything that goes on for ... five, six weeks at a time isn't going to be your garden variety reflux, indigestion, constipation-related stuff.
Swayze's widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, recently told TODAY.com that his first symptom was jaundice, which the"He came to me and he said, 'Do my eyes look yellow?'" Niemi Swayze recalled."He had some digestive problems — pain that wouldn’t go away. But it was mostly the yellow eyes that sent us to the doctor. He said, 'Oh, we’ll go in next week.' But I thought, 'Yellow eyes just doesn’t sound normal. We need to go tomorrow.
For patients diagnosed when the cancer hasn't spread outside the pancreas, the five-year survival rate is around 44%,. When it's spread to parts of the body near the pancreas by diagnosis, it's about 15%. When it's spread beyond that at diagnosis, for example to the lungs or liver, the survival rate of pancreatic cancer is 3%.
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