I would like to encourage everyone seeking medical advice and solutions to medical concerns. Remember, to try Jesus, as he is still in the miracle working business.
I pray for all of our doctors, researchers, and pharmaceutical communities that God, continue to give you resources, strength, insight, energy, knowledge, creativity, and visions of cure's. I pray healing for those in need and wisdom, strength, and courage to those administering, help, healing and favorable and unfavorable diagnoses. Dear Domenica, there are no screening standards for pancreatic cancer, but because you know that you carry this mutation, we recommend that you speak with a genetic counselor about your overall cancer risk.
My mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in She had a whipple procedure done at that time and was given a year survival rate.
It is now March , and my mom is still with us. While her health is not perfect, she still goes out and gets her hair done, a trip to a restaurant, a few hours at the casino, etc.
She is a miracle for sure. I thank God every day that she is still with us. That whipple procedure saved her life. Thank you for this article. Just a thought, I truly wonder if the people who have beat pancreatic cancer because they have these abundance of T-cells had a co existing condition like psoriatic arthritis or a different autoimmune disease.
These patients may be prone to cancer but would have an already over-active amount of t-cells due to the autoimmune disease. This would contradict the fact that the pancreatic cancer patient developed these abundant tCells during a period in which they had cancer but rather they had already been produced before the cancer.
Wondering if someone with an autoimmune disease would possibly have a better chance then of fighting off a recurrence of pancreatic cancer? I know that autoimmune patients are excluded from the PC immunology trials. My husband was diagnosed just this week and will be having the Whipple on Tuesday. His cancer was caught early.
Please keep up the important research in this area! My husband was diagnosed with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. It was an accidental early finding. He had surgery at MSK in October. Stage 1, no evidence of spreading and no lymph node involvement. We were told surgery was successful.
As a precaution he was started on an aggressive regime of folfirinox every 2weeks. We have that done closer to home. Needless to say we are hoping to beat the low survival rate. When he became a patient at MSK he signed consent for clinical research and genomic profiling. How do we go about receiving results of tumor testing? Dear Karen, you can read about the latest research in pancreatic cancer in this blog post.
Thank you for your comment. My grandfather passed away in of PC at the age of Am I overthinking this? Is there any information you can share with me to help? Thank you in advance. Dear Salvatore, if you are concerned about your family history of cancer, we recommend that you speak with a genetic counselor who is an expert in hereditary cancers.
You can learn more about the symptoms of pancreatic cancer here. You can learn more about the diagnosis here. By Matthew Tontonoz Wednesday, November 8, The pancreas orange is a small digestive organ located near the stomach. Nobody knows why these patients live longer than other people with pancreatic cancer, but something is clearly setting them apart. Compared with pancreatic tumors from people who had low survival rates, tumors from long-term survivors had nearly 12 times the number of immune cells called T cells inside them.
Therapeutic cancer vaccines train your body to protect itself against its own damaged or abnormal cells — including cancer cells. Learn more. Tags Cancer Care. Dear Diana, we are very sorry for your loss. Thanks, S. Whipple March for 7cm tumor. Refused chemo and radiation. So far, so good. I have to let her go, I'm devastated John. Peace and good health to all! Dear Lisa, thank you for your comment. Best wishes to your husband on his surgery this week. This article was from November Has there been any progress since?
How is PC diagnose, symptoms? Some breast cancers that move quickly have an active Zeb1, and as theorized by Drs. Thomas Brabletz and Marc Stemmler, who were among the team members who pinpointed Zeb1's capability while conducting their research under the auspices of the university, other fast-moving cancers have Zeb1 switched on, too. In the rarer cases when pancreatic cancer is slower moving and relatively less aggressive, researchers believe that Zeb1 is switched off, producing "significantly lower metastatic capacity" and a longer period of survivability.
Historically, only about 7 percent of pancreatic cancer patients have lived at least five years after diagnosis," states a Mayo Clinic report published last May. In about half of patients, the cancer has spread throughout the body by the time it is diagnosed, ruling out surgery. While pancreatic cancer's deadly efficiency is a result of its symptomless nature, this discovery in itself does not now make this type of cancer more treatable.
It does, however, provide scientists more specific information on how to confront the driving forces of cancer of the pancreas — including finding a way to "switch off" Zeb1 — and other aggressive forms of the disease.
One of those hormones is insulin, which prompts the body to use sugar in the blood rather than fat as energy. Its levels are low in diabetic patients, who suffer from abnormally high blood sugar. Only one fifth of Americans diagnosed with pancreatic cancer survive for a full year, according to the American Cancer Society , and it is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the country.
An edited transcript follows. Pancreatic cancer is typically diagnosed at a late stage because it doesn't cause symptoms until it's too late. Weight loss, abdominal pain , jaundice [a yellowing of the skin due to toxic buildup in the liver]—those are the most common symptoms.
They usually start after the tumor is a significant size. By then, chances are, it has metastasized [that is, spread to other parts of the body]. Only about 10 to 15 percent of pancreatic cancers are diagnosed when they could be considered for surgery. And the prognosis is poor even in patients who do have surgery, because it comes back about 85 percent of the time.
At best, 25 to 30 percent of patients are alive five years after surgery. When doctors do pancreatic cancer surgery, they take out 95 percent of the pancreas, including the tumor, and then they leave a small remnant of the pancreas in there that serves [the insulin-producing] functions. If a person can live without a fully functional pancreas, then what, ultimately, kills most pancreatic cancer patients?
When most patients die of pancreatic cancer, they die of liver failure from their liver being taken over by tumor. We don't do surgery if the tumor has already spread outside the pancreas, because there's no survival benefit in removing the tumor. We also sometimes can't do surgery [when the tumor] involves the great blood vessels, the superior mesenteric vein and superior mesenteric artery.
Those are the main vessels that come off of the aorta, the main artery in our body. If the tumor is wrapped around those blood vessels, then we can't take it out. Because of the nature of the tumor cells.
They escape the treatments, they hide out, and then they come back.
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