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WHY PANCREATIC CANCER IS SO DEADLY
KQ2 TV News ^ | August 23, 2019 | By Elizabeth Landau,

Posted on 08/23/2019 4:28:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for pancreatic cancer in New York City, the Supreme Court announced Friday.

While the court said Ginsburg's tumor "was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," and no further treatment was needed, pancreatic cancer remains a serious diagnosis for the 86-year-old liberal icon.

Pancreatic cancer was the third-leading cause of death from cancer in the United States in 2018, after lung and colorectal cancers, according to the National Cancer Institute.

About 95% of people with pancreatic cancer die from it, experts say. It's so lethal because during the early stages, when the tumor would be most treatable, there are usually no symptoms. It tends to be discovered at advanced stages when abdominal pain or jaundice may result. Presently, there are no general screening tools.

There are two types of pancreatic cancer: exocrine tumors and endocrine tumors.

Exocrine tumors are the majority of pancreatic cancers, and the most common form is called adenocarcinoma, which begins in gland cells, usually in the ducts of the pancreas. These tumors tend to be more aggressive than neuroendocrine tumors, the kind that Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs had, but if caught early enough, they can be treated effectively with surgery.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancer; ginsburg; pancreaticcancer; rbg; rbgpancreaticcancer; ruthbaderginsburg; scotus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a terrible disease.

I personally know so many people who have been taken by pancreatic cancer, in addition to all the celebrities. When I was an undergrad nursing student in the 90s, they told us it was rare. I no longer believe that.

BTW, any news on Alex Trebek?


41 posted on 08/23/2019 5:22:32 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: BipolarBob

“Why not just get a pancreas transplant and get rid of the diseased one?”

According to John Hopkins, the long-term outlook for people who receive a pancreas transplant is quite good. People who receive simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplants also tend to have less chance of rejection. A positive long-term result depends on a number of factors including control of blood glucose. But this surgery is used for type I diabetes treatment not cancer.

A pancreas transplant would likely not cure the cancer even with a transplant. If a cancerous tumor is discovered within the pancreas before it spreads to other organs, only the portion of the pancreas containing the tumor is removed via Whipple Surgery. Most often the cancer has spread beyond the pancreas before it is diagnosed.

Even if pancreas transplantation was an option for pancreatic cancer, which it isn’t according to Dr. Daniel Von Hoff one of the world’s foremost oncologist, medical researcher and cancer scientist, the patient would have to take anti-rejection medication which would suppress the immune system. When the immune system is weakened, cancer cells would likely grow and spread at a more rapid pace. And because of the normal late discovery of pancreatic cancer due to the few tests and determinations available, the cancer is normally outside the pancreas and has spread to other tissue in the body. The suppression of the immune system is an open door to further spreading of the disease at an accelerated rate with nothing for the body to fight it with.

rwood


42 posted on 08/23/2019 5:25:00 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: Redwood71

Thank you for the reply. Informative.


43 posted on 08/23/2019 5:27:09 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Heaven has gates, walls and immigration policy but Hell has an open border policy. Food for thought.)
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To: workerbee
Not the same but my mothers died of stomach cancer the doctor recommended radiation so that we as a family could enjoy her a bit longer..she died 6 months later..we enjoyed those precious months and were grateful for those extras the radiation gave us. My point is radiation is the last treatment to extend life a bit but eventually the cancer wins! I give her 4-5 months before she succumb to this evil evil freakin disease FROM HELL!!!
44 posted on 08/23/2019 5:29:09 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Sarah Barracuda

RBG gets screened a lot and they may have caught it early.


45 posted on 08/23/2019 5:29:26 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: be-baw

My favorite also and I felt the same way about that loss.


46 posted on 08/23/2019 5:33:49 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: RoseofTexas

F cancer.


47 posted on 08/23/2019 5:34:58 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Twitter, Facebook and New York City do not represent the real world.)
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To: bigbob

Yes - I corrected it at #30... All deaths at such young ages....


48 posted on 08/23/2019 5:35:25 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Starstruck

I agree with you. I would not wish that on anyone.


49 posted on 08/23/2019 5:37:08 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism: intolerance masquerading as tolerance)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's similar to kidney cancer in that you don't know you have it until it's spread to the point where it's difficult if not impossible to treat.

I had an aortic dissection a few years ago, and when they scanned my abdomen they found a one-inch malignant tumor on my right kidney. I was able to get it removed before it had a chance to spread. The ironic thing is that if I hadn't had the dissection (which is a pretty bad thing in and of itself) I'd never have known about the tumor until it was too late.

I wonder why they don't recommend a CT scan maybe once every five years or so for everybody over a certain age. That might go a long way toward early detection of some very nasty conditions.

50 posted on 08/23/2019 5:39:26 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: RoseofTexas

My dad just died of cancer at 91.

He went in for his first radiation treatment and took a nose dive immediately following.

Too much for him.


51 posted on 08/23/2019 5:40:26 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Grimmy
She’s a domestic enemy. I’m not going to pretend she’s anything other than.

Ginsberg? Yes, she's a pretty nasty piece of work.

52 posted on 08/23/2019 5:40:43 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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Sorry to hear that but she should have stepped aside several years ago.....I don’t wish suffering on anyone...nearly...


53 posted on 08/23/2019 5:45:30 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: dp0622
I’m not biblical much, but sometimes you reap what you sow.

Well, if cancer is condign punishment for sin, I suppose my wife must be quite a sinner, because she's been struggling with stage iv breast cancer for the past five years. It's under control, but the treatments have been tearing her up.

54 posted on 08/23/2019 5:46:13 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Obamacare cures it. /S
55 posted on 08/23/2019 5:53:04 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Amberdawn

Nope, the worst cancer of all is the one you have.

For me, it is Chronic Lymphocytic Lymphoma and for my mom, it was liver cancer.


56 posted on 08/23/2019 5:54:15 PM PDT by Jemian (War Eagle!)
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To: workerbee

My Mom 6 weeks after surgery. They opened, radiated & shut. It had spread more than apparent preop.


57 posted on 08/23/2019 5:55:20 PM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance. Nemo me impune lacessit!)
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To: Amberdawn

Does a CAT scan show it?


58 posted on 08/23/2019 5:55:32 PM PDT by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Marilyn Horne (opera singer) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2005. She doesn’t perform anymore but she is still alive.

ML/NJ


59 posted on 08/23/2019 5:56:40 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: House Atreides; All

“...treated definitively...”
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WTH does that mean? definitively
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A wonderfully vague word that is used, Stalin-wise, to make a bad prognosis not look as bad as it really is. Most of the articles about Teddy Kennedy and John McCain used similar language that had to be carefully parsed to learn the grim truth. Given the writing about Kennedy and McCain, it looks like she’d better making her funeral arrangements.


60 posted on 08/23/2019 5:58:20 PM PDT by libstripper
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