No: Three areas of the pancreas develop malignancies. Head, body and tail. The only one with early symptoms occurs with jaundice from the head . Surgery is limited to about 10% of patients when the lesion is small, is not near the liver, does not show up with extensive nodal involvement or invades the portal vein from GI tract. All of these situations result in inoperabilityr.
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Most lethal cancer: Current literature revealed: about 49,000 people developed pancreatic cancer in US and almost all of them expected to die from their disease. Surgical resection of the tumor is the only potential cure and only about 15 to 20 % are candidates for pancreatectomy. No resection if metastases in liver , peritoneum, omentum, extra abdominal sites. Consult oncology surgeon or cancer treatment centers .
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