Question by Peggy: When was the first case of pancreatic cancer diagnosed in the U.S.?
I am wondering if doctors could diagnose a patient with pancreatic cancer as early as 1950. My mother told me that my grandmother died of pancreatic cancer in 1954. My father says my mother could not have known that my grandmother had pancreatic cancer–that cancer was just called “cancer” in the 1950s.
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Answer by Ricky Ponting
Pancreatic cancer is a disease that affects the tissue of the pancreas, which is the fish-shaped organ that sits in back of the lower portion of the stomach that is responsible for the manufacture and secretion of enzymes and hormones important to digestion. According to American Cancer Society statistics in 2008, some 37,680 people in the United States will receive a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, with 34,290 individuals dying of the ailment. Pancreatic cancer spreads quickly and is rarely detected in its earliest stages-two reasons why it is considered such a deadly form of the disease.
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