What is the response to chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer

What is the response to chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer?

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in the digestive tract. Many people are not particularly familiar with pancreatic cancer, but it is generally difficult to cure pancreatic cancer patients. It is also the malignant tumor with the worst prognosis. The early symptoms are not obvious, and the late diagnosis rate is not high. The cure rate and surgical treatment survival rate are also very low. It is difficult to treat and can only alleviate the condition. Pancreatic cancer develops rapidly, has a short course, and deteriorates quickly.

So what are the symptoms of pancreatic cancer?

Common symptoms are:

1. Pain in the middle abdomen, left upper abdomen, right upper abdomen, or even testicular pain;

2. Jaundice;

3. Abnormal digestive tract symptoms;

4. With the onset of diabetes, late stage ascites, migratory thrombophlebitis or arterial thrombosis.

Pancreatic cancer adopts the principle of early detection and early treatment, mainly surgical treatment, combined with radiotherapy and chemotherapy for comprehensive treatment. Surgery is the only way to treat pancreatic cancer, but the treatment is difficult, the success rate of surgery is low, and the survival rate after treatment is low. Palliative treatment can also be used to improve physical condition and comprehensive treatment to alleviate the condition. Chemotherapy is a common means of controlling malignant tumors, but most of the drugs used are cytotoxic drugs, which will damage their own normal cells while killing tumor cells, and then produce many adverse reactions, nausea and vomiting are more common.