by Josie Borg

Created on: August 04, 2008

Explaining Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic Cancer is a tumor in the pancreas that can spread into the lymph nodes and liver over time. Pancreatic Cancer is a disease that a person can have most of their life and not know that they have it. It sneaks up on you, lives and grows inside of you unknowingly throughout your life and one day you may notice pain in your stomach. You go to the doctor to get it checked out and you are told that it is nothing because Pancreatic Cancer cannot be diagnosed unless a CT scan is done on your Pancreas. The only way one will be done is if the doctor may suspect it or you request it because the pain is intolerable. If your pain goes undiagnosed, you will start to get pain around your breastbone that will shoot through to your back. There is a nerve there that causes the pain. The only way to numb the pain is to cut the nerve. Then, you may notice yellowing of the skin and eyes. Your doctor may think that it is a slew of different diseases but may not associate the symptoms to Pancreatic Cancer until it is too late. When your skin starts to turn yellow, you are already in stage four and the tumor is probably to big to remove if, they do operate or it has spread. At this point, you can opt for Chemotherapy or natural ways to reduce the size of the tumor. Unfortunately, Pancreatic Cancer currently is a death sentence to whoever has it. There is no cure for this type of cancer. A person diagnosed with this awful cancer has a maximum of two and a half years to live with it before they pass.

There are a few causes of Pancreatic Cancer;

1. This disease can be genetic. If there is a history of this type of cancer in your family, then there may be a possibility of you suffering from it.
2. Smoking and certain chemicals have been linked to this disease.
3. Nitrates in prepackaged meats have been linked to this disease. Some packaged meat would be bacon, hot dogs, deli meat etc.
4. A lot of stress in your life. Stress can cause blood cells to stop oxygenating. Cancer lives off dead cells in the body. If your cells are oxygenated properly, cancer should not be able to survive in you.

When I saw my mother turning yellow, I asked her to see a doctor. When the doctor ran tests, she was diagnosed with Hepatitis C. My mother told me this, so I went to find my own information on Hepatitis. My mother did not have any type of Hepatitis from the investigating that I did. The symptoms were all wrong. She was yellow but she did not share needles with anyone or

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