Why pancreatic cancer Malignant on Steve Jobs?

Why pancreatic cancer Malignant on Steve Jobs?

The dead leave tiger striped, Steve Jobs left Apple and dying of pancreatic cancer. Indeed, despite the rich and famous such as Jobs, his body unable to fight off cancer of the pancreas.

Men aged 56 years this last only seven years after declared cured of pancreatic Neuroendocrine cancer, having dissected in 2004. Understandably, the type of neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer is easy to handle than other types of pancreatic cancer, actor Patrick Swayze eroding until his death two years ago.

The death of Buddhist Dalai Lama makes people want to know a lot about cancer of the pancreas. Dissection of the Jobs that time had indeed seen by some medical experts are pessimistic.

The experts suspect when done the Whipple procedure or the removal of a portion of the pancreas--a portion of the intestine and some parts of other digestive organs-cancer cells-in fact it's already spread to the lymph beningnya.

Most medical experts suspected this was evident when a few years later the condition worsening Jobs accompanied by weight loss and skin yellowing. In January 2009, Jobs stated that her only hormonal imbalance.

A few weeks later, he was reportedly undergoing transplantation lever. When undergoing a transplant was actually a bad sign that the condition is pancreatic cancer Jobs had not yet been completed.

According to the head of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PACN), based in Manhattan Beach, California, United States, Julie Fleshman, pancreatic Neuroendocrine tumor, a type of cancer of her Jobs, this is rare. Only 5 percent than all types of cancer of the pancreas.

Patient survival rate of people with pancreatic cancer are very low. PCAN Data mentioned 75 percent of patients die every year of the post-diagnosis and 94 percent died within five years after diagnosis.

Why pancreatic cancer so ferocious? According to the Fleshman to Livescience, one of them due to the lack of a method of early detection for this type of cancer. "This cancer usually has already happened when undiagnosed metastasis," he said.

The pancreas lies deep within the abdominal cavity, tube-shaped backside along 15 centimeters, which even with a CT scan only tumors that develop in it is hard to know. The main task for the human body is the pancreas produces enzymes that help break down food and produce intestinal hormone insulin to regulate blood sugar. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth cause of death from cancer, both men and women.

Citing data from the Sol Goldman, John Hopkins Medical Center, and WebMD, according to doctor Phaidon Toruan, cancer is a cancer that is secretly the most deadly for 38 thousand Americans are undiagnosed pancreatic cancer, and 34 thousand of them died.

In the early stages of developing cancer, does not feel any symptoms. But along with the greater growth of the cancer, it will feel pain in the upper left part of the abdomen which radiates to the back. Taste the pain when people are increasingly becoming stricken with cancer is eating or lying down.

Another symptom is jaundice alias-looking yellow. It happened because there was a blockage of bile ducts and cover the tumor. But all these symptoms are not very typical and could be interpreted as a sign of disease or other conditions.

Numbers survive become increasingly low when a patient is diagnosed has reached an advanced stage. Less than 2 percent of patients diagnosed with cancer cells that have spread to several parts of her body can last up to five years.

People with this type of tumor, such as Jobs reported should have a survival rate is better than the other patients. Causes of pancreatic Neuroendocrine tumor, cells proliferate very slowly compared to other pancreatic tumor cells, for example adenokarcinoma.

There are several risk factors that can trigger a Phaidon called cancer of the pancreas, for example aging, smoking habit, suffering from diabetes (diabetes), the descendants of Ashkenazi Jews, BRCA genetic mutation, age above 50 years of age, obesity, and lack of exercise.

Diabetes mellitus, according to a specialist in diseases of the hospital Partners Kelapa Gading, Dante Saksono Harbuwono 6-7, triggering a higher risk than those not subject to this disease. "This is because there is a gene that triggers transcription factors of pancreatic cancer," he said.

To prevent it, the doctor advised against undergoing a pattern of healthy living. Especially those who have a history of gastrointestinal cancer and family members who have a history of cancer of the pancreas is recommended to do the screening.

In some cases, in addition to the cancer or tumors of the pancreas, pancreas could indeed be lifted. But, according to Dante, should continue to be monitored because it is risky to be a disease of diabetes mellitus of pancreatic insulin-producing as because it doesn't exist. Don't neglect and belated, later to pass quickly.