Pancreatic Cancer
Joey Rubright and Nicole Portu
What is pancreatic cancer?
Symptoms
Causes
Diagnosis
First, a routine physical exam is done to rule out other possibilities. If there are suspicions of cancer, a CT scan is done. Once the CT scan is done, if a tumour shows, a biopsy will be done and the tumour will be tested.
What is happening in your body?
Treatment and Cures
They try to remove the cancer by surgically removing it but otherwise there is no known way to try to defeat pancreatic cancer.
Prevalence
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