Steve Jobs died after several years of fighting pancreatic cancer - The most lethal tumors view. Jobs was lucky because he found cancer to treat. In general, the disease kills up to 97% of their patients in the first five years after the diagnosis. From pancreatic cancer died Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky Tolubeev and Andrew, as well as American artist Patrick Suyezi, known for his roles in "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost".
The main problem lies in the fact that pancreas cancer a long time without developing symptoms. And find him already at the stage where nothing can be done. By this time, the cancer cells are already beginning their migration through the body, causing irreversible damage to other organs such as the liver or kidney.
In this case, the chances that the patient survive more than five years is a tiny 3%. However, if pancreas cancer catch at an early stage, the chances of success grow to 40%. And now researchers have found a simple, reliable way to find in apparently healthy people, the first warning signs.
A team of experts from the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore scan patients for the presence of pancreatic cysts - tiny growths that can become cancerous. In the risk group, patients with cysts, a family history of which have already been cases of pancreatic cancer, as well as those who have suffered from pancreatitis. British scientists are developing a urine test or blood, with which it will be possible to detect specific biomarkers - proteins produced by the tumor. In the next 3-5 years the specialists of the Institute of Cancer in London expect to identify five to ten of these biomarkers, which are not only informed about the disease process has already begun, and will tell about the risk of pancreatic cancer in healthy people.
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