Pancreatic Cancer Surgery
Pancreatic Cancer Surgery
What is Pancreatic Cancer?
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most serious of cancers. It develops when cancerous cells form in the tissues of your pancreas - a large organ that lies horizontally behind the lower part of your stomach. Your pancreas secretes enzymes that aid digestion and hormones that help regulate the metabolism of carbohydrates.
Pancreatic cancer spreads rapidly and is seldom detected in its early stages, which is a major reason why it's a leading cause of cancer death. Signs and symptoms may not appear until the disease is quite advanced. By that time, the cancer is likely to have spread to other parts of the body and surgical removal is no longer possible.
What Causes Pancreatic Cancer?
We still do not know exactly what causes most cases of pancreatic cancer. Several risk factors have been linked to the disease. A risk factor is something that affects a person's chance of getting a disease such as cancer. Some risk factors, such as smoking, can be controlled. Others, like a person's age or race, can't be changed. But keep in mind that having one or more risk factors does not mean that a person will get the disease.
Signs and Symptoms of Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer often is called a "silent" disease because it typically doesn't cause symptoms early on. The cancer may grow and spread for some time before symptoms develop, which may be so vague that they are initially ignored. For these reasons, pancreatic cancer is hard to detect early. In many cases, the cancer has spread outside the pancreas by the time it is found. When symptoms appear, their type and severity depend on the location and size of the tumor.
TREATMENT FOR PANCREATIC CANCER in India
1. Surgery.
2. Radiation.
3. Chemotherapy treatment for pancreatic cancer.
4. Operations include the Whipple resection, distal pancreatectomy, total pancreatectomy and portal vein surgery.
Whipple Procedure
The Whipple procedure (pancreatoduodenectomy) is the most common operation performed for pancreatic cancer and may be used to treat other cancers such as small bowel cancer. Surgeons remove the head of the pancreas, most of the duodenum (a part of the small intestine), a portion of the bile duct and sometimes a portion of the stomach. After the pancreatoduodenectomy, the surgeon reconstructs the digestive tract. Patients leave the hospital in an average of 14 days.
Distal Pancreatectomy
This illustration depicts pancreatic tumor in the body of the pancreas.
After mobilization of the spleen and the body and tail of the pancreas, the pancreas is divided and the body, tail, tumor and spleen are removed.
This operation is performed to remove tumors of the body and tail of the pancreas. The tail of the pancreas can be removed with the main portion of the organ left intact. This procedure eliminates the need for surgical reconstruction.
Total Pancreatectomy
This procedure is performed infrequently today because lifelong adverse effects may result. In this surgery, surgeons remove the entire pancreas, bile duct, gallbladder, and spleen, and possibly portions of the small intestine, stomach and nearby lymph
Portal Vein Removal
Most physicians consider pancreatic cancer inoperable if the tumor is attached to the portal vein. We Care India partner hospital is one of few medical facilities in India that offers removal and reconstruction of the entire portal vein. The capability to perform this procedure permits a larger percentage of patients who have pancreatic cancer to have a potentially curative operation.
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