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(02-08-2021, 11:41 PM)3wt Wrote: Ugggghhhhh.  Didn't know this.   Pancreatic Cancer is a bear.  My experience is that it's always terminal.  Hope I'm wrong. 

(02-09-2021, 09:32 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Yeah, one of my closest friends is dying from it right now. If I remember right, I believe they reported it was in his bile ducts attached to the pancreas, so maybe and hopefully they got it early enough. 

(02-09-2021, 04:04 PM)3wt Wrote: My cousin's wife passed away last spring from it.  And everyone I've known who had it passed away from it.

Hope you're right and they got it early enough.

Since the pancreas is SUCH a small organ (IIRC, it is literally like 4-5 inches long and less than an inch in girth/diameter), if the cells there are cancerous, there's a very small chance of survival, since you can't cut it out (doing so would damage the organ and the surrounding area, irreparably) and you have to undergo rigourous chemotherapy and/or radiation, to try and reduce the mass as much as possible; it's a messy and difficult ordeal and by the time it gets big enough to detect, it typically has spread to other organs already.

If only the cancerous cells were actually painful, people would detect it significantly-faster (internally, as externally, unless you don't care about your body, you will see/feel a mass). But because they are just, "cells gone rogue," they continue to function within the normal constraints of your body, thus not causing any pain and going undetected; it's why it is such a devastating disease.

From glancing at it, this appears to be a good article on pacreatic:

https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/postings/2019/03/pancreatic-cancer.php

EDIT* looking it up, its a bit thicker/more-girthy than I initially thought.