What are the characteristics of pancreatic cancer? Pancreatic cancer is most common in men in their 40s and in people with blood type B. Why is this? There are many specific features of pancreatic cancer that are more common. Here, why don't we introduce you to how the performance characteristics of pancreatic cancer are.
Men of this age should beware of pancreatic cancer
The incidence of pancreatic cancer in people aged 40 to 44 years is 2/100,000, while the incidence in people aged 80 to 84 years reaches 100/100,000, an increase of 50 times. more than 80% of the cases occur between the ages of 60 to 80 years. The study on the mortality rate of pancreatic cancer in China found that 69.62% of pancreatic cancer cases occurred in people aged 60 and above. From the age distribution of pancreatic cancer mortality, pancreatic cancer is a middle-aged and old-aged disease.
This study suggests that people with blood type B should be more wary of pancreatic cancer, especially those who already have other risk factors for pancreatic cancer. It has now been confirmed that sweets, excessive meat intake, smoking and alcohol abuse, obesity and pancreatic cancer are closely related, especially high protein and high fat diet is more harmful, if you usually eat too much fat, starch, protein and other substances, it will easily cause pancreatic overload, so that the pancreatic cells undergo malignant transformation, and gradually lead to pancreatic cancer.
What are the symptoms of pancreatic cancer?
1. Abdominal pain. Abdominal pain is the main symptom of pancreatic cancer, no matter which part of the tumor is in. Many patients with pancreatic cancer commonly have pain in the middle abdomen or left upper abdomen or right upper abdomen, and a few cases will have lower abdomen, periumbilical or total abdominal pain, so it is easy to be confused with other diseases. When the cancer involves the visceral peritoneum, peritoneum or retroperitoneal tissue, there may be pressure pain in the corresponding areas.
2. Wasting. The vast majority of patients with pancreatic cancer will experience wasting or sudden weight loss, which is one of the most common symptoms of pancreatic cancer. This is thought to be related to the abnormal bile secretion guide affecting nutrient absorption leading to wasting.
3. Obstructive jaundice. It is the prominent manifestation of pancreatic head cancer. If the tumor site is close to the jugular abdominal area, jaundice can be earlier, and the appearance of jaundice is often persistent and progressively deepened, the color of stool becomes pale, or even potter's earth color, and the yellowing of skin is brown or bronze, and there is pruritis of skin.
4, constipation. If you suddenly appear constipation, this is quite dangerous; because the pancreatic duct is blocked, coupled with sudden severe pain, the pancreas is likely to occur autolysis, and even lead to pancreatic cancer patients will be sudden death.
As a gastrointestinal surgeon, I will answer this question. Wang Lei, vice president of the I am more familiar with, because they are engaged in the field of colorectal, for these professors in the industry, more or less will have some understanding. I was shocked when I found out about this news, and my first feeling was that a doctor does not heal himself, despite the fact that Dr. Wang is an expert and professor who is dedicated to the research of colorectal cancer, and he is well known in the industry. However, for his own body, he did not cherish, may be too busy at work, did not regularly participate in medical examinations, until the discovery of pancreatic cancer, it is already advanced, has metastasized to the liver.
At this time, Prof. Wang Lei was only 49 years old, and he was really jealous of his talent. Pancreatic cancer is known as the king of cancers, due to the lack of any specific clinical manifestations in the early stage, when the symptoms appear and the cancer is found, it is often at a late stage, due to the fast development of the pancreatic cancer cells, and the difficulty of surgery, most of the people in the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, death in half a year, and the five-year survival rate of pancreatic cancer is only 5% to 10% or so, which is the most advanced stage. The five-year survival rate of pancreatic cancer is only about 5% to 10%, which is the highest mortality rate of cancers, and it is the king of cancers.
After the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, Wang Lei was not scared by the disease, but chose to actively treat it, and on April 1, 2018, he underwent surgery surgical treatment to cut off his spleen, 80% of the pancreas, part of the stomach, and most of the nerves near the intestines. "When I had the surgery, I was ready to not wake up." Wang Lei said.
After the surgery, Wang Lei underwent chemotherapy, however, in just two months, on June 5, he was on the podium of the International Cancer Conference to report his findings. Professor Wang diagnosis of cancer to now, has been 13 months, in addition to receiving treatment, he has not put down for the work, outpatient clinics, academic meetings, lectures have been uninterrupted, in some critical moments of the operation, he went to the stage to personally operate.
From the advanced stage of pancreatic cancer, it has been 13 months now, which is a medical miracle in itself, once an academician statistics, doctors suffering from cancer survival rate is significantly higher than that of ordinary people, that is because the doctor can face up to their own cancer, can accept the most formal treatment, and can be faced with a positive mindset.
We hope that Prof. Wang can overcome pancreatic cancer! We hope a miracle can happen!
Wang Lei, a respectable colorectal surgery expert, vice president of the Sixth Hospital of CUHK, who has been practicing medicine for 27 years, was finally diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer because of a high tumor marker in a medical checkup in March 2018, insisted on bringing the disease to the clinic after the operation, and passed away on June 23rd of this year at the age of 50 after a 15-month battle with cancer. This reminds me of a vice president when I was in college, 50s, himself an expert in general surgery, and specializes in the surgical treatment of liver, gallbladder, pancreas and spleen malignant tumors, and one day suddenly diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, from the diagnosis to the death of less than three months.
Medical experts but suddenly died of illness in frequent contact with malignant tumors, sounds slightly unbelievable, after all, in the eyes of ordinary people as medical personnel should know a lot about this area, should be more able to avoid this situation. But there is a saying that those who drown are those who can swim. In a way the two are a bit alike. The ones who can swim are probably more careless, less cautious, and generally don't think about drowning. The same reason, in fact, many medical experts usually have no time to pay attention to their own bodies, not unwilling to pay attention to, but very busy, basically every day's schedule is very compact, overtime and overtime is a common thing, the body a little bit uncomfortable or something are just deal with, day after day, the body sometimes big problems did not think. Like Wang Lei dean, in fact, in the second half of 2017, often feel back pain, cold does not heal, but because the schedule is often full, he thought it was overworked, and did not care too much. And like the vice principal of our school, before the diagnosis has been for a long time always feel uncomfortable with the stomach and intestines, thought it was ordinary gastroenteritis, also casually take some medicine to deal with the past.
Then again, pancreatic cancer is a very insidious disease with a high degree of malignancy, rapid metastasis, no symptoms in the early stages, and most of the symptoms are in the late stages, and the prognosis is very poor, and the time from diagnosis to death is very short, which is why it is known as the "king of cancers". Early detection of pancreatic cancer has no direct specificity, unlike lung cancer where a chest CT can reveal whether there are lesions in the lungs. Screening for pancreatic cancer is best done by casting a wide net. Imaging and laboratory tests should be combined, such as ultrasound, CT (must be enhanced), MR (must be enhanced) and tumor markers CA199, CA125 and CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen). The CEA was found to be abnormally elevated during the physical examination and was further examined by Dr. Wang Lei.
As a medical staff of the medical staff of the kind of tired y understand, although the work schedule is nine to five, but in fact it is difficult to do, due to the work of the need to work overtime, no vacation, midnight emergency is a very common thing, but there is no way, lives are at stake, the condition of the need for you how to do what you have to do, and this should be the particularity of this industry. The body is the capital of the revolution, I hope that the majority of medical workers in the care of patients at the same time also pay attention to take care of their own bodies.
I was studying medicine during my teacher and a few Chinese medicine famous doctors talk, they have spoken of this cancer problem, they said, cancer cells can not be detected, sesame seed is a big point is cancer, the tumor grows three pounds or a tumor, will never become cancer, cancer cells are hard as a rock, the tumor is soft, they can not be mixed together, and now the Western medicine in order to frighten the patient to check the body, it is said that the early detection of early treatment, to prevent the cancerous changes, anyway. I do not believe that this to the hospital officials, what not to check, every quarter to check, how he cancer advanced, the facts prove that those old Chinese doctors said is correct, a call Fan Sheng netizen, his sister got mastitis, the hospital said that his sister breast cancer, the three hospitals doctors said that his sister, scared of the meal do not dare to eat, every day, crying, he told me about the situation, I asked, does it hurt, can be pushed to move it? His sister said pain, can push the move, I asked and answered her, don't worry! It's not cancer, breast tuberculosis hyperplasia, mastitis, not cancer. The result is less than two days out of the results, the same as what I said, mastitis, a big surprise, spending tens of thousands of dollars, this external bread block, know the doctor a touch a push to know cancer is not cancer. The cancer cells are hard, push the immobility, tumor is soft, push the move, this is the Chinese medicine to determine the method of cancer, visceral cancer Chinese medicine can not find out, no instrument quasi.
In fact, doctors are human beings, do not think that the doctor treats the disease to save people, the disease will not dare to approach. In the fight against disease, doctors and other people are not much different, due to the special nature of the doctor's work, sometimes may also be worse than the ability to resist disease.
As for the vice president of 27 years of medical treatment, but finally diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, this is normal, most pancreatic cancer patients are found when the cancer is advanced. It's no coincidence that Apple CEO Steve Jobs also suffered from pancreatic cancer and had liver metastases as well. Pancreatic cancer is very scary, there are a lot of cancers, such as lung cancer, stomach cancer, intestinal cancer and so on, but only pancreatic cancer is known as "the king of cancers", so you can imagine how scary it is. Although the level of medical technology has improved, the diagnosis and treatment of cancer technology is also constantly developing, but the probability of pancreatic cancer patients can survive for 5 years is less than 5%, and pancreatic cancer is equivalent to a "death sentence".
The onset of pancreatic cancer is very insidious, and most of them do not have any clinical manifestations in the early stage, and sometimes they only show up as vague pain in the upper abdomen, bloating and other discomforts, and the symptoms are very atypical, so that many patients think that their stomachs are not good, and many doctors will not pay attention to it. Because the head part of the pancreas is close to the bile duct, if the pancreatic cancer is located in the head part of the pancreas, the tumor compression will lead to the obstruction of bile duct discharge, which will lead to jaundice, and then if the patient goes to the hospital, the pancreatic cancer may be found. However, since the pancreas is located in the deeper part of the abdomen, although sometimes there are symptoms, to detect pancreatic cancer, you need to have more sophisticated instruments and equipment, and the doctor also needs to have a certain level of experience. Overall, because the symptoms of pancreatic cancer are very hidden, the examination also needs more demanding equipment and experience level of doctors, resulting in pancreatic cancer is difficult to be detected early, most of the pancreatic cancer patients are found when the cancer is advanced.
And because the blood vessels and lymphatic tissues around the pancreas are abundant and complex, and close to the liver, pancreatic cancer can easily metastasize, and it is normal for cancer cells to have spread to the liver.
I don't find it surprising that the vice president of 27 years of medicine suffered from advanced pancreatic cancer, but I think it's a pity that Prof. Wang Lei left this world on June 23, 2019, at the age of 50, who has long been committed to clinical and translational research on colorectal cancer and radiation enteritis, and has made remarkable achievements in the fields of medicine, teaching and research, etc. Prof. Wang Lei's passing is a great loss for Chinese medicine. Prof. Wang Lei's death is a great loss to Chinese medicine. His attitude to fight against the disease has also touched many people: Prof. Wang Lei could no longer eat on his own after palliative surgery, but he still insisted on receiving patients two months after the surgery, and also appeared in the U.S. Congress of Clinical Oncology to expound to nearly 10,000 oncologists from around the world on the only report on colorectal cancer in the field of gastrointestinal tract from China...
The death of Prof. Wang Lei is a great loss to Chinese medicine. ...
Hats off to Prof. Lei Huang.
In everyone's mind, doctors have a higher sense of health awareness, especially for major diseases like cancer, which should be able to be detected early and treated in a timely manner.
In reality, it is true that healthcare professionals have more awareness of disease prevention than ordinary people, and have a unique advantage in screening for major diseases. But for diseases like cancer, it's sometimes hard to be 100% preventative.
Taking pancreatic cancer as an example, pancreas is located deep in the body cavity, surrounded by complex organs and tissues, especially the most common pancreatic head cancer, surrounded by the duodenum, surrounded by large blood vessels, pancreatic and biliary ducts, with an early invasion of blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and spread to the liver, peritoneum, lungs, and lymph nodes characteristics. Early pancreatic cancer can have no symptoms, the chance of being able to be detected is extremely low, as the disease progresses, there will be paroxysms of epigastric pain, jaundice, nausea and vomiting and other discomforts, but the appearance of the above symptoms is usually very late.
Moreover, pancreatic cancer has a high degree of malignancy and few effective treatments, except for a very small number of early detection and radical surgery, there is a lack of other more effective control methods, and there is no recommended targeted drugs. And even if it is found early, the chance of recurrence and metastasis after surgery is extremely high. According to clinical statistics, the median survival of patients who cannot undergo surgery is only 6-9 months, and the average survival of patients who have the opportunity to undergo surgery is only 15 months, with a 5-year survival rate of about 15%.
Doctors are also ordinary people, especially in major diseases like cancer, it is difficult to say that the fundamental prevention.
This incident shows that frequent medical checkups are meaningless. Doesn't the vice president of a hospital know anything about medicine? Doesn't he have frequent medical checkups? Then why was the cancer found to be terminal?
Now why is the hospital overcrowded? The first time I saw this is when I was a little girl, and I was a little girl, and I was a little girl. The fundamental reason is that people's health concepts and medical methods have deviated from the correct direction. People too believe that the hospital medical level, the wrong technology is the savior, the health and life is completely entrusted to the medical, usually sick or not sick to do a variety of laboratory tests, completely forget the health of the fundamental lies in the usual prevention, ignored the importance of prevention.
The more important thing is to prevent the disease. Medical institutions and researchers must contribute to the prevention of disease in order to effectively prevent people from getting sick. However, driven by immediate interests, hospitals only see the economic benefits of treating illnesses, the toxicity of drugs, radiation of inspection equipment, etc. are varying degrees of impact on human health. No disease becomes a disease, a small disease becomes a big disease. The more patients are treated, the more serious the treatment. Therefore, if you want not to be sick and less sick, you must pay attention to health care in normal times, comply with the laws of nature, eat and drink, the rest on rest. The most advanced medical treatment can not cure the life, such as the vice president of the treatment of other people's disease but can not cure their own life.
The industry raised the question, the industry outside the leap answer, sigh ......
A quote from the common sense to answer:
1, the world of disease is never uninvited, including dangerous desperate;
2, doctors in addition to the white uniforms, the essence of the flesh is also a person;
3, The pathogenesis of malignant tumors is still unclear, the two main correlates of the current reliable, one is the gene, the second is the lifestyle.
Second, adjust the mind analysis:
1, life is good, life is important. Anyone regardless of what degree of disease attack, outsiders should report sympathy, kindness, comfort, help emotions, rather than the opposite, or subjective assumptions, or no reason to be involved, so that the next category of innocent lying shot!
2, the lessons of others, prevention is better than cure. Including the importance of thought, the establishment of a healthy lifestyle, regular checkups, early detection, early diagnosis, early treatment.
Here, I really want to remind the industry, although the cause is important, health is especially good. Within the scope of the ability to moderate maintenance, your family and your patients still need your company for a long time, you must do a good job of healthy body role model!
Every time I see a doctor fall, the sound of sighs!
Inside and outside the industry, everyone cherish.
Anyone who suffers from cancer, doctors are no exception, the difference is that the doctor is clear about every process of treatment consequences and costs, most cancers are incurable, they are clear that they will die, about how long it will be dead, feel to get their own day by day weak, this feeling, or very painful, this doctor is a rectal surgeon, forty-something years old when he was the dean of the hospital, but also a young and talented, he fought cancer with cancer patients for 27 years, only to have fate play a joke on him and he became a cancer patient himself. The only good thing about it is that he can better appreciate the feelings of the patients and the burden of treatment on the heart of the patients and their families. I remember an old doctor who advocated total gastrectomy as a treatment for gastric cancer, who had done total gastrectomy for his whole life and cared about the pain of his patients. It was not until he also had this surgery that he really felt how painful it was for the patients and made new suggestions. May this doctor, stop laboring and hurting and get well.
In the face of disease, everyone is equal, no one dares to say that surely not cancer, or surely get cancer, here said everyone is equal, that is to say that diseases, including cancer, and will not be because of the onset of factors other than the reasons and deliberately take care of who, for example, not because of who has the right, who has money, is not a doctor, and so on and so forth differently. Of course, sometimes these factors do have an impact on morbidity, but it's not that the disease takes special care of anyone, it's that someone is doing a better job, e.g., someone with money may be in a position to do a better job, and thus get sick less often, but even if you're rich, the disease isn't going to take care of you and say that if you're rich, you won't be allowed to get the disease if you don't do a good job.
Some people say that doctors themselves are the ones who treat people and should not get sick or get sick less. Yes, it is reasonable to say so, but the doctor himself is also a profession, the body can not help a lot of times, sometimes know how to do, but can not do, such as knowing that overwork is not good, sitting for a long time is not good, but the doctor can be leisurely? Can you sit down soon? Sitting in the outpatient clinic, so many patients waiting, not to see the end of the line? Therefore, sometimes the doctor has become a high-risk group of disease, because they are health overdraft crowd, they are for the sake of the patient, but at the expense of their own health.
In addition to these external environmental factors, sometimes there are other factors, just like non-smokers and non-drinkers still have the probability of getting cancer, just relatively low probability, which may be genetically related factors, or even random factors (unexplained).
Many people always think that doctors don't get sick, and someone once said, "Doctors get sick too. This sounds a little helpless and ridiculous. Doctors are human beings, he is a mortal first, and then a doctor, he is also a human being, also have the same feelings, will be angry, will be sad, will be sick.