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Pancreatic

About Pancreatic Cancer

A less common but more life-threatening GI cancer, pancreatic cancer, is also a clinical focus of ENH specialists. While pancreatic cancer is estimated to be diagnosed in about 32,000 patients in 2005, only about 3 percent of those patients will survive.

Dr Knop and Dr Wyrwicz review MRI images

Richard Knop, MD, PhD and Alice Wyrwicz, PhD, have embarked on
an investigative journey that will
usher in the next generation of
magnetic resonance imaging.
Their study uses a 14T MR imager
to detect minute differences in the cellular structure of biologic models.

Risk Factors

Pancreatic cancer risk factors include many of the same risks as other GI cancers. Risk increases with patients who are older than 50, patients with a family history of pancreatic cancer, and high fat diets. Other risks have been identified to include smoking, diabetes, or chronic pancreatitis. Unlike other GI cancers, men are more at risk than women and African Americans are more likely to have this cancer than Caucasians.

Signs and Symptoms

Likewise, pancreatic cancer has few identifiable symptoms in its early stages. General symptoms may include pain in the stomach, in the middle or upper back, weight loss and /or jaundice.

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