November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness month and it is our mission to help bring information & education to the masses to better protect ourselves and prevent late stage diagnosis from this awful disease. There are two forms of pancreatic cancer:…
Can Pancreatic Cancer Be Found Early? Pancreatic cancer is hard to find early. The pancreas is deep inside the body, so early tumors can’t be seen or felt by health care providers during routine physical exams. People usually have no…
A risk factor is anything that increases your chance of getting a disease such as cancer. Different cancers have different risk factors. Some risk factors, like smoking, can be changed. Others, like a person’s age or family history, can’t be changed.
The most common type of pancreatic cancer, adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, starts when exocrine cells in the pancreas start to grow out of control…
Early pancreatic cancers often do not cause any signs or symptoms. By the time they do cause symptoms, they have often grown large or have already spread outside of the pancreas. Having one or more of the symptoms below does…
When you receive a diagnosis of cancer, it’s natural to wonder what may have caused the disease. Doctors can’t always explain why one person gets pancreatic cancer and another doesn’t. However, we do know that people with certain risk factors…
November is #PancreaticCancerAwareness month and we’ll be sharing information all month long on the symptoms and treatments of this deadly disease to keep you aware and educated. Our goal is to prevent late stage diagnosis which we feel is the best…