the cancer of pancreas, two great functions of pancreas, kinds of cancer, symptoms and treatment of the cancer of pancreas

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Cancer of the pancreas… Hopes of research
The cancer of the pancreas is not very frequent. It is rare before 50 years and middle age at the time of the diagnosis is approximately 70 years. But like it appears by symptoms far from specific, the diagnosis is often too late, which compromises the forecast. However, research advances with great steps, as well in the field of early tracking as in that of the treatments with in particular the research programs in genic therapy.
Except the nicotinism, which multiplies by two or three the risk to develop a cancer of the pancreas, the environmental risk factors are far from known. There in addition exists a hereditary predisposition to the cancer of the pancreas alone or the cancer of the pancreas associated with other cancers (centre, ovary, skin, intestine). Two great functions of the pancreas

The pancreas contains in particular two great types of cells, which confer two distinct roles to him:
? It intervenes in digestion grace to its cells known as exocrines which manufacture digestive juices and enzymes.
? It also intervenes, grace to its endocrine cells, in manufacture; hormones such as insulin and glucagon both implied in the regulation of the blood sugar rate (the glycemia).

Cancers of the pancreas? This distinction is important to include/understand the two types of cancer of the pancreas:
? Most frequent (95% of the cases) touches the cells exocrines pancreas. Then we are spoken; pancreatic adenocarcinomist or of cancer of the pancreas exocrine.
? When the endocrine cells are touched (5% of the cases), we speaks about tumour or endocrine carcinome of the pancreas.

Which are the symptoms alarm of the cancer of the pancreas?
The most frequent signs are ictère or jaundice, the abdominal pain and deterioration of general state (unusual tiredness, loss appetite, slimming). But can also appear an obstruction duodenale (food intolerance, vomiting, stop of the intestinal transit time), an acute pancreatite, diarrhoeas, a diabetes, an unexplained depressive syndrome, unexplained phlebites with repetition. But cancer can also be detected fortuitously at the time of a blood analysis (hepatic parameters, hyperglycemia…) or an examination of abdominal imagery (echography, scanner).

However, research advances with great steps, as well in the field of early tracking as in that of the treatments with in particular the research programs in genic therapy.
As indicated previously, the symptoms of this cancer are far from specific. In addition, it don’t exist known major risk factor, which would make it possible to prevent this type of tumour and to organize trackings in populations at risk. For all these reasons, the cancer of the pancreas is generally diagnosed too tardily, when the tumour already reached a advanced stage. The treatments are then less powerful, which compromises the forecast.
Like indicate very clearly Association for research on cancer, it also should be known that ” the proximity of major abdominal vessels makes surgically inoperable certain cancers of size however reduced. Moreover, cancers of the pancreas are aggressive tumours which frequently induce metastases early”.
It is however necessary to underline the formidable therapeutic progress, already made and in the course of implementation. In particular, of new drugs like the ” anti-angiogeniques” who are able to inhibit blood irrigation of the tumour and the research programs in genic therapy which are on the way of a kind of curative vaccine. Research also progresses as regards early tracking, with in particular identification of specific tumoral markers.

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