What is Pancreatic Cancer?

This is a Cancer that starts when exocrine cells in the pancreas grow out of control. Most of the pancreas comprises exocrine cells that form the exocrine glands and ducts. The exocrine glands make pancreatic enzymes that are released into the intestines to help you digest foods. Several types of growths can occur in the pancreas, including cancerous and noncancerous tumors. The most common type of cancer that forms in the pancreas begins in the cells that line the ducts that carry digestive enzymes out of the pancreas

How to treat Pancreatic Cancer

Complete removal of the tumor with surgery is often the best chance at curing pancreatic cancer. Partial removal of tumors doesn’t help patients live longer, so surgery is only done if the cancer can be removed entirely. Pancreatic cancer treatment options are chosen based on the extent of the cancer. Options may include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a combination of these.

My Personal Experience

A few months ago my grandpa was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He spent his last months down at his lakehouse on Lake Herrington that he built himself, he would rather be there than anywhere else in the world.  He was always someone I could talk to about any problem I had, took me on fishing trips, and opened his home for all my family to have a great time each holiday. An amazing grandfather, a friend, was taken from us a few weeks ago but this will not stop anyone from carrying on his legacy, and what he taught to so many people. He is gone but never forgotten.

Cancer sucks.