Wednesday 25 February 2015

Dr. Pradeep Jain - What is Pancreatic Cancer?

Dr. Pradeep Jain Fortis Hospital - A tumor, located in any part of the body, is called cancer and that’s why there is no limited name specification about the cancer. Now is the time when people as well as doctors are hearing new cancer, earlier people were informed about few cancers, but now many cancers have been reported and pancreatic cancer is also one of them.

Pancreatic cancer is also very typical to handle, because in most of the cases, it’s never detected, until it reaches its advanced level, because its symptoms are too generic. Whether many technology or medicines has been treated, but in the case of this cancer, theses technologies get failed or may not succeed, because once it diagnoses at its advanced level than the patient hardly survived 5 to 6 months.


What is pancreatic cancer?

A human body has many organs and pancreatic is also one of them, actually it is located behind of the stomach or upper side of the abdomen. Actually, this is called a gland or node and this is too active gland, which helps to digest the food in the body and to control the blood sugar, means due to this you can be saved from sugar also.

Causes of reaching a high level or producing in a body

Every disease has its origin and some symptoms also, through the disease can be developed, so that to detect any disease, we have to consider on some points. Whether, pancreatic cancer is also known as a silent killer because it comes only with its danger level not before. Yet there are some factors and with them it increases rapidly.

Obesity: It’s seen that obesity can be the reason behind of pancreatic cancer, because tumor also refers the extra part of the cell or mass and obesity is likely near to that.

Smoking: Tobacco has been a first element to increase cancer, no matter it is pancreatic or another one.

Diet: A rich diet also invites a cancer and in the case of this cancer, it plays a very strong role. A diet with rich meat and having fat has been linked to develop it.

Diabetes: if a person is suffering from diabetes then he might be affected by the cancer because studies have specified the link between diabetes and cancer.

Extra protein in food: if your meal has unnecessary protein of other ingredients, then it also can cause the cancer, so that meal should be sufficient.

Symptoms of cancer 

Reasons, which are mentioned above are the causes, by which cancer can be developed, but there are some symptoms also and through them you can identify the cancer.
  • Abdominal pain
  • Vomiting
  • Loss of appetite
  • Jaundice
  • Darkening of the urine
  • Pale colored stool
Remedy prescribed by doctor
Generally, doctors prescribed medicine, but if the level of cancer is too low, and if it has been its advanced level or if the doctor is also not sure about its level, then he recommend the surgery, as surgery is the first process to detect the cancer so that the doctor could also be sure. Then for the treatment of pancreatic cancer few remedies are there,
  • Radiotherapy: In this technology, radiation therapy is used, like high energy rays are done as vaccine on the infected organ and for the better result or in high level of cancer it can be used with chemotherapy.
  • Chemotherapy: Basically it is the most famous technology for the treatment of cancer and in this process many kind of chemical is used.
This cancer doesn’t have many solutions and most of the people are not aware about this disease as they don’t know the name of pancreatic cancer, due to that, this cancer has the fifth place being the reason of death.

Dr. Pradeep Jain is a renowned doctor in the stream of Laparoscopic surgery. Dr. Pradeep Jain has experience over twenty years in the field of GI surgeries incorporated with pancreatic surgery and bariatric surgery.

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