With vague — if any — symptoms, which can indicate any number of different conditions, pancreatic cancer is very difficult to diagnose.
On Wednesday, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek announced that he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
“Because most patients are diagnosed after the cancer has already spread, it is a difficult cancer to treat,” Capobianco told Global News. “While chemotherapy can help to keep the cancer at bay, it is ultimately not a curative treatment.”Another reason pancreatic cancer can be tough to spot is because it hasn’t been researched enough.
Smokers are, “two to three times more likely to develop pancreatic cancer than non-smokers,” said the organization. “Use of smokeless tobacco may also be associated with pancreatic cancer development.” Signs and symptomsAs Capobianco said, it can be especially difficult to recognize pancreatic cancer because its symptoms are the same as several other illnesses.
Stage 1Stage 1 pancreatic cancer is also known as “resectable,’ and it usually entails “a relatively small tumour localized to the pancreas that does not involve important arteries and veins so it can be removed by surgery,” Capobianco said.
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