I didn't get as much information as I hoped to get in my previous question. I lost my grandma to pancreas cancer, but I never really knew much about it, until I started to think about it. What are the symptoms of it? I heard that your skin turns yellowish (which did happen to my grandma), and I still don't even understand how that happens.
Is there a treatment for it? I heard it's very fatal. Please let me know what you can. sorry I'm not going to give as thorough an answer as you need as I'm tired and just about to go to bed!
However, very briefly, it's obviously cancer of the pancreas, an organ that lies in your upper abdomen and stretches across the top of your abdominal organs overlapping slightly your liver. It's an endocrine and an exocrine organ - it excretes digestive enzymes as well as secreting the hormone insulin which metabolises glucose so we can store it for use as energy when we need it. It has a duct that connects with a duct from the liver (the pancreatic duct). If damaged we become very ill as it does so many things, and if a cancer develops there it is very serious and can be quickly fatal if not treated in its early stages.
sorry but that's all for now - sorry about your grandma. Night! PS - you go yellow cos the cancer blocks the duct that connects to your liver meaning the bile your liver produces cannot get to the bowel and instead gets into your blood stream resulting in yellow skin and pale stools. |
