Michael Wallace, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, named an early symptom of especially dangerous pancreatic cancer, which usually develops imperceptibly and begins to metastasize even before the diagnosis of the disease. This reported in a press release on MedicalXpress. P >
According to the specialist, diabetes mellitus is an alarming sign, which is found in people of normal or low weight, as well as in people who are at high risk of cancer, such as the elderly or those who use tobacco. p>
In addition, recently there have been new methods of early diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer. An MRI can identify fluid-filled cysts within an organ that increase the likelihood of developing a tumor. You can also take samples of digestive fluid secreted by the gland or stool to look for markers of early cancer.
Fine-needle biopsy allows you to take enough biological material from malignant tissue to study the genetic sequences in tumor cells and determine the best drug to target the neoplasm if other methods are no longer working.