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Pancreatic Diseases and Treatment

Pancreatitis is a disease of the pancreas, which involves and secretes insulin and glucose. Pancreatic disease or pancreatitis can be caused by stones, alcohol consumption, trauma, drugs, disease, cancer, and genetic diseases, and often lasts longer, more than few days, accompanied by fever, nausea, reflux or tachycardia, Abdominal swelling.

The treatment of pancreatitis is first analyzed by physical examination and the levels of amylase and lipase in the blood. Different tests are needed to distinguish gallstones or to identify a damaged pancreas, and other blood tests should be done. Gallstones can be removed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). This year, approximately 48,960 adults (24,840 men and 24,120 women) in the United States will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. 40,560 people (20,710 men and 19,850 women) will die of the disease this year. Pancreatic cancer is the eighth most common cancer in women, and the fourth leading cause of cancer in both men and women.

 

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