Pancreatic Cancer and its Treatment

Pancreas is an organ in the human body that is located in the abdomen. It plays very vital and crucial role in transforming the food we eat into fuel for the human body’s cells. It has two main functions; exocrine function that supports in digestion and other is an endocrine function that controls blood sugar. Cancer begins when cells in the body start to grow out of control. As a matter of fact, cells in nearly any part of the body can become cancer and can spread to other parts of the body. It is very vital to know that if the cancer is an exocrine or endocrine because they have distinct risk, causes and they also have different signs and symptoms; they are diagnosed, treated different ways and have different viewpoint. The two major types of cancer in pancreas are exocrine pancreatic cancer and endocrine pancreatic tumors which are also called as neuroendocrine tumors. Below list discusses various treatmen