How long can you live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer

How long can you live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer? What disease will cause our death? This is a question in the hearts of many patients. Since various diseases often occur in our lives, they often cause many health problems for patients. Do you know about the occurrence of pancreatic cancer? Such a disease often leads to the death of patients, and it also makes many patients endure the fear in their hearts. So, after pancreatic cancer occurs, will the patient recover?

1. Pancreatic cancer is a common disease. If you want to control the occurrence of the disease in time, you must control your lifestyle. A lot of smoking has been found to be closely related to pancreatic cancer. ① Smoking promotes the excretion of tobacco-specific N-nitrite, a carcinogen, into the bile duct, which then flows back into the pancreatic duct; ② Tobacco-specific N-nitrite can flow into the pancreas with the blood after specific infection of the organ; ③ Smoking increases blood lipid levels and promotes pancreatic cancer. Smokers may be prone to cancer due to low levels of cell methylation. Experiments have shown that maintaining adequate levels of folic acid and pyridoxal can reduce the harmfulness of pancreatic cancer associated with smoking.

2. Sometimes other diseases can also be caused by pancreatic cancer, so you should be vigilant about the occurrence of diseases. Studies on diabetes experiments show that insulin can promote the growth of pancreatic cancer cells in vitro or in vivo; high concentrations of insulin can activate the insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor, producing a growth-promoting effect including changes in the cell cycle process.

3. Even if the disease occurs a lot, friends cannot receive timely treatment. In fact, there are many good ways to treat diseases in life. Most studies on the epidemiology and molecular epidemiology of chronic pancreatitis support that chronic pancreatitis can develop into pancreatic cancer. Friess's study showed that among 5,600 genes, 34 genes were expressed less in patients with pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis, 157 genes were expressed more in chronic pancreatitis, and 152 of them were also expressed more in pancreatic cancer. This study has proven to a great extent that there may be some connection between chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.

Treatment of pancreatic cancer

1. Surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer

Surgery is the only possible cure. Surgical methods include pancreaticoduodenectomy, extended pancreaticoduodenectomy, pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy, and total pancreatectomy. However, due to the difficulty in early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, the surgical resection rate is low, and the five-year survival rate after surgery is also low. For pancreatic cancer with obstructive jaundice that cannot be removed, cholecystocystostomy or bile duct jejunostomy can be selected to reduce jaundice and improve the patient's quality of life. Stents can also be placed under endoscopy to relieve obstruction, which is also one of the treatments for pancreatic cancer.

2. Palliative treatment of pancreatic cancer

For cases that are not suitable for radical surgery, it is often necessary to relieve obstructive jaundice. Generally, cholecystojejunostomy is used. If conditions are not met, external fistula (cholecystostomy or external bile duct drainage) jaundice reduction surgery can be performed. Most patients can relieve symptoms and improve their overall condition in a short period of time. The general survival time is about half a year.

3. Radiation therapy

Pancreatic cancer is a tumor with low sensitivity to radiotherapy. Since the pancreas is located deep inside, the surrounding gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidney, spinal cord, etc. have low tolerance to radiation, which is not conducive to radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer. However, in recent years, with the development of intraoperative radiotherapy, treatment planning under precise CT positioning, and multi-field external radiotherapy, radiotherapy has become one of the important means of treatment for pancreatic cancer.

How long can you live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer? The above is the knowledge of disease treatment introduced by experts. Now everyone has a general idea. In fact, the disease is not so terrible. There are still many treatment methods for the disease. As long as we choose the right method at the right time, we will achieve better treatment results and may avoid death. In addition, the patient's reasonable living habits and proper exercise will also help the patient recover.