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What is pancreatic cancer?
Early stage of pancreatic cancer is hard to be diagnosed. When patient is diagnosed as pancreatic cancer, normally more than 75% is advanced stage of cancer. There are not more than 30% cancer case can be treat and only 10% survival rate after treatment. The characteristics of minimally invasive treatment are lesser side effects, small trauma and fast recovery. This can prevent pancreatic cancer patients from surgery and side effects from chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Pancreatic cancer begins in the pancreatic tissue. About 95% of pancreatic cancers begin in the exocrine cells that make digestive enzymes in the ducts of the pancreas, also known as pancreatic adenocarcinoma, a common type of pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is the 12th most common cancer worldwide. It is the 12th most common cancer in men and the 11th most common cancer in women.In 2020, there were more than 495,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer. According to the World Health Organization statistics, in Malaysia, only about 3 out of every 100,000 people diagnosed in the last five years since 2020 survived.
So can middle and late-staged pancreatic cancer be cured? Minimally invasive techniques with fewer side effects and less trauma can help pancreatic cancer patients avoid surgical resection as well as suffering from traditional radiotherapy, improve their quality of life and effectively prolong their survival.
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