Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive type of cancer that will be diagnosed in approximately 53‚070 Americans this year alone; 41‚780 will die of it. (1) The pancreas is an organ essential in maintaining homeostasis in the body‚ it secretes hormones and enzymes that help us in the digestion of fats. Due to its “invasiveness‚ rapid progression and profound resistance to treatment” (3)‚ pancreatic cancer is the fourth cause of cancer death in the United States. Although there is not a sole cause of
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in regard to cancer is‚ is it hereditary? Could I be more susceptible to the development of cancer based on my family history? Pancreatic cancer is considered hereditary when a person has certain genetic syndromes. These genetic abnormalities cause as many as 10% of pancreatic cancers. Genetic syndromes that can cause exocrine pancreatic cancer are: Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome Familial melanoma Familial pancreatitis Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome)
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patients with pancreatic cancer is important. Patients should be monitored closely for depression and treated when it arises. Other complications that require palliative intervention include pain; gastric outlet or duodenal obstruction; and bile duct obstruction and subsequent jaundice‚ cachexia‚ hypercoagulability and malabsorption caused by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (Yim et al; 2001). Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and subsequent malabsorption should be treated with pancreatic enzyme
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cell division and cancer cells in class. At the beginning of the investigation‚ we knew how cells divided and symptoms for evidence of cancer. We also knew the process of cell reproduction as well as the cell cycle. My goal for this investigation was to use my knowledge to determine which patients if any had cancer. The guiding question was “Which Patients Could Have Cancer”. This question was related to the information we had been studying‚ because we had been studying cancer cells and mutations
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proteins‚ and fat by secreting special digestive enzymes into the small intestine. It secretes the hormones insulin‚ glucagon‚ pancreatic polypeptide and somatostatin into the bloodstream to facilitate blood glucose metabolism (Huether & McCance‚ 2017‚ p. 901-902). Pancreatitis is the inflammation of the pancreas which can be characterized by edema‚ and obliteration of pancreatic tissues caused by autoimmune digestive enzymes. Pancreatitis may lead to multi-organ failure and even death. Pancreatitis
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Proposal Paper 1.My Topic The topic I want to research for my paper is Pancreatic Cancer. 2. What I Already Know I know that this is a cancer of the pancreas‚ which is an organ in the human body. I do not know a lot about the cancer or the actual organ itself. Though I have been affected by pancreatic cancer personally; my aunt was diagnosed with this cancer and later passed away from it. Through this experience‚ I saw that this cancer acts very fast and is very intense. My aunt was diagnosed in the
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Pancreatic Cancer: The Facts Megan R. Smith HS200‚ Diseases of the Human Body Unit 4 Capstone Project: Pancreatic Cancer Kaplan University August 23‚ 2014 You may be asking yourself‚ “What is pancreatic cancer?” Pancreatic cancer is a disease caused by malignant (cancer) exocrine cells in the head of the pancreas. (National Cancer Institute). The exocrine cells make up about ninety-five percent of all the cells in the pancreas. (American Cancer Society‚ 2014). Pancreatic cancer is
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exenatide‚7–9 while a concern over the possibility of an increased risk of pancreatic cancer from exenatide use has been raised in the FDA adverse event reporting system (AERS) database.10 However‚ this analysis has been criticized regarding the limitations of using the AERS database for determining event rates.11 In order to better characterize the relationship between exenatide‚ acute pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer‚ we analyzed a large commercial claims database of adult U.S residents with
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What Are the Stages of Pancreatic Cancer? The stages of pancreatic cancer are used to describe how advanced the cancer is in your body. The higher the stage number‚ the more widespread the cancer is. These stages are important when choosing the best treatments for you. Your doctor might not be able to tell how far your cancer has spread (especially to the lymph nodes‚ which are tiny bean-shaped organs throughout the body that help fight infections) unless and until surgery is performed. For this
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with diabetes and paternal grandmother who passed away with lung cancer and paternal grandfather who passed away with brain aneurysm. Her mother currently has high blood pressure and her father has nothing significant going right now. Just about a few days ago Pamela showed symptoms of abdominal pain and projectile vomiting that had her husband worried about her and took her straight to the emergency room. Her pancreatic enzymes were elevated‚ her abdominal ultrasound and CT of the abdomen
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