American actor Patrick Swayze, the Russian film star Oleg Yankovsky and Andrew Tolubeev - they all died of pancreatic cancer . The disease is most feared in oncology, as alive five years after the diagnosis are only 3% of patients. However, there is one type of pancreatic cancer Who respond well to treatment (he suffered from Apple's CEO Steve Jobs), but in most cases the disease today sounds like a death sentence.
More than 80% of patients still die in the first year after diagnosis, experts say of British society?% Ancreatic Cancer UK. And this is usually due to the fact that before his last stage pancreas cancer practically does not manifest itself. When he was still finding it already is incurable. Chemotherapy and radiation are only slightly extend the life of patients.
It is surprising that in the last 40 years (1970) the level of survival pancreatic cancer It has not changed, although the treatment of other types of cancer has reached great progress. ?% ancreatic Cancer UK launched a project, in which the patients and doctors will ask questions about what can be done to change this situation.
The head of the society Alex Ford recalls that you can operate only one in ten pancreatic cancer because the tumor often all twist around a major blood artery, in this case, you can not remove it. In the UK this type of cancer is a major killer of cancer patients every year taking the 7 800 people.
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