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What kind of experience is it to live with pancreatic cancer?
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Often unpleasant: Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive and almost always fatal malignancy. Patients who have it may experience abdominal pain, jaundice with malaise and fatigue, nausea and vomiting, and pain elsewhere if the tumor spreads. Surgery for the disease can also be painful afterwards, and chemotherapy may also be debilitating and unpleasant. Plus, a patient with this diagnosis lives knowing about the end.
Answered 4/6/2013
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