Is pancreatic cancer a bad type of cancer?

my nan has been taken into hospital with pancreatic cancer and im not sure what the circumstances are. Also is curable or not?

I'm very sorry to hear the news about your nan. You might want to ask a very important question of her doctors to have a better understanding of her situation . . .

There are four stages of cancer, with Stage Four being the most serious. If you ask your nan's doctor's what stage of pancreatic cancer she is suffering, you will have a clearer picture of the prognosis. Please don't be afraid to ask the doctors questions; they should help you understand the situation.

All my best thoughts go to you and your family . . .

Guess, you're not looking for real facts just sympathy. abnd moral support. My heart goes out to you and your family. It's a grim picture and it involves a lot of pain. It's an arduous journey. Report It

Greggles; I hope you're okay . . . Please e-mail me at bittyboo22@yahoo.com to talk, if you'd like. Report It

There are no good cancers sorry. Call the hospital for info and they'll certainly explain everything to you. ALternatively, google search it, there'll be loads of info. Good luck.

RP Feynman had it and he lived for quite some time after getting it abt 50 years ago...So dont worry...

cancer is always bad...
it should be treated in its initial stage... lest the affected part has to be removed...

Any type of cancer is bad, really. Sorry about your nan. =[

There is no such thing as a good cancer. Anyway, all cancers can be treated in the early stages. But not all cancers can be treated in the late stages. If this is the case, there is a tendency for the cancer not to be cured, but simply remitted.

As stated before, there are no good cancers. My husband is now recovering from stage 4 Melanoma. I say this to give you hope. Pancreatic cancer is not a good one to get. However if in the early stages, there are better odds. It is best to wait until you have a full description of the disease before assuming time lines. My husband was given 6 months in May. He is now in remission. If you are told, "go home and be comfortable", discuss what is best for the patient. If she wants to fight, get her to a doctor that will help. Vanderbilt in Nashville TN is one of the best cancer research hospitals there is also MD Anderson in Houston TX. I am partial to Vandy because they treated my husband. They have a cancer hot line number. Toll Free:, 1鈥?00鈥?39鈥?918 (Cancer Help Line). Vanderbilt will not put you in blind studies. Don't loose hope. Find out as much as you can as fast as you can. If you are in a smaller town ask to go somewhere bigger. The doctors in smaller hospital may see 10 cancer patients a year. The Clinic at Vandy sees hundreds a week. I am so sorry to hear about this news. You can send updates to our prayer e-mail address (regardless of religious preference) larkinswillpray4y@yahoo.com. God bless you and your family.

Prognosis is a forecast of the probable course and/or outcome of a disease or condition. Prognosis is most often expressed as the percentage of patients who are expected to survive over five or ten years. Cancer prognosis is a notoriously inexact process. This is because the predictions are based on the experience of large groups of patients suffering from cancers at various stages. Using this information to predict the future of an individual patient is always imperfect and often flawed, but it is the only method available.


Unfortunately, pancreatic cancer is often relatively advanced at the time that it is diagnosed. As a result, the number of patients who survive for five years or more after diagnosis is very small, perhaps as low as 5%. About 21% of all patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer survive for a year after diagnosis.


There 's so much pain involved in pancreatic cancer. :


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Remember 鈥?statistics are averages based on large numbers of patients. They cannot predict exactly what will happen to you. No two patients are exactly alike and response to treatment also varies from one person to another.


You should feel free to ask your doctor about your prognosis, but not even your doctor can tell you for sure what will happen. You may hear your doctor use the term 鈥? year survival鈥? This relates to the proportion of people in research studies who were still alive 5 years after diagnosis. Doctors follow what happens to people for 5 years after treatment in any research study. This is because there is only a small chance that pancreatic cancer will come back more than 5 years after treatment. Doctors do not like to say these people are cured because there is that small chance. So the term 鈥? year survival鈥?is used instead.


Outcome overall and by stage
As with many other types of cancer, the outcome depends on how advanced your cancer is when it is diagnosed. In other words, it depends on the stage of your pancreatic cancer. Generally speaking, pancreatic cancer diagnosed early will have a better outlook than pancreatic cancer diagnosed when it is advanced.


Overall, pancreatic cancer has a poor prognosis. By the time someone has symptoms, goes to their doctor and is diagnosed, the disease is very often quite advanced. Only about 15 to 20 out of every 100 diagnosed (15 鈥?20%) are suitable for surgery. Because of this, there is little accurate data for 5 year survival rates for the early stages of this disease.


Most people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are told that they may have less than 1 year to live. But, specialists, working in leading cancer centres throughout the world, often report slightly better statistics than this based on clinical trials that they are carrying out. But we still need more research and clinical trials before the outlook for people with this type of cancer improves.


Of all those people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, about 10 to 15 in every 100 people (10 to 15%) are alive 1 year later. Sadly, only about 3 out of every 100 people diagnosed (3%) live for at least 5 years after diagnosis. At 10 yrs after diagnosis, the figures are almost the same as those at 5yrs.
About 2 in every 100 people( 2%) live to at least 10 yrs.

For more info go to the link: below:

http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/defaul...

My sister was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on 7/20. They did a Whipple surgery and she is now doing chemo and radiation. regretfully, there is no pain with this cancer, thus the late diagnosis. my sister feels fine.. .chemo now is not as hard as it was.. they give her pills and she is not sick. she starts radiation next week. i do not know what to tell you... the more i searched on this cancer, the worse i felt. no one can tell you when you are going to die. the doctor told my sister that he does not have a crystal ball. all my Internet research kinda shows 20 months. she is stage 2-3. 2.5 is what they told me after her surgery. please let your nan cry.... be there for her, share some good memories and tell her you are there for her..... that is all that we can do. my prayers are with you and your family.

depends on what stage the cancer is?