Alex Trebeck has Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer

*Refractive Reflections* · 03-08-2019, 02:29 AM

Losing my grandmother to pancreatic cancer is rough because there are no screening tests, and the symptoms don't appear until it's already severe (stage 4 usually). It's very difficult to operate, and usually inoperable, because of so many organs (stomach, pancreas, liver, spleen, small intestine) and vessels (bile ducts and lymph nodes, in addition to a network of large and small arteries and veins) crowded around that area.

...The prognosis is usually less than a year left in living. Chemotherapy only extends life by some months at most.

03-08-2019, 02:29 AM	#11
Refractive Reflections Mad Scientist $Refractive Reflections's Avatar$ Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 2,371	Losing my grandmother to pancreatic cancer is rough because there are no screening tests, and the symptoms don't appear until it's already severe (stage 4 usually). It's very difficult to operate, and usually inoperable, because of so many organs (stomach, pancreas, liver, spleen, small intestine) and vessels (bile ducts and lymph nodes, in addition to a network of large and small arteries and veins) crowded around that area. ...The prognosis is usually less than a year left in living. Chemotherapy only extends life by some months at most.
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