Adenocarcinoma of the exocrine pancreas (90% of pancreatic cancers) is the fourth most common cause of cancer death in the United States and the ninth most common cancer in women.
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Depends on tumor location; majority become symptomatic late in disease. About 60–70% of pancreatic cancers develop in the pancreatic head and block the periampullary bile duct, causin...
Surgical resection: only chance of cure; no role for pancreatic resection in metastatic disease. As few as 15–20% are candidates for resection.
Criteria for unresectability: extrapancreatic s...
Anorexia, asthenia, pain, and depression may contribute to cachexia.
Fat malabsorption due to exocrine pancreatic insufficiency may contribute to malnutrition; pancreatic enzyme replac...
Gurusamy KS, Kumar S, Davidson BR, et al. Resection versus other treatments for locally advanced pancreatic cancer. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2014;(2):CD010244. [View Abstr...
C25.9 Malignant neoplasm of pancreas, unspecified
C25.0 Malignant neoplasm of head of pancreas
C25.1 Malignant neoplasm of body of pancreas
C25.2 Malignant neoplasm of tail of pancreas
C25.7 Ma...
Sudden onset of diabetes mellitus in nonobese adults aged >40 years may warrant consideration of pancreatic cancer in selected cases.
Presence of occult peritoneal tumor cells denote...
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