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What is pancreatic cancer?

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Dr. Reza Shirazi answered

Specializes in Radiation Oncology

Uncontrolled growth: Cancer is uncontrolled growth of cells that has escaped normal mechanisms of control that exists in the body to control cell growth and repair damage that may have occurred in the dna of a cell. If this happens to be in the pancrease, (pancrelipase) we call it pancreatic cancer.

Dr Ferdowsi agreed

Answered 5/26/2014

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Dr. Reza Shirazi answered

Specializes in Radiation Oncology

Uncontrolled growth: Cancer is uncontrolled growth of cells that has escaped normal mechanisms of control that exists in the body to control cell growth and repair damage that may have occurred in the dna of a cell. If this happens to be in the pancrease, (pancrelipase) we call it pancreatic cancer.

Dr Ali and another doctor agreed

Answered 8/4/2015

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