My father passed away from pancreatic cancer few months ago.
First of all it is a very painful thing to have and all those who are enjoying must pray that this thing never happens to them or their loved ones.
Secondly, pancreatic cancer is generally diagnosed in terminal stages because it has no visible symptom in the early stages. Generally in stage 4a or 4b do the symptoms become visible.
At this stage it is impossible to remove the cancerous primary tumour. Pancrea itself is located at such a place that it is difficult to remove it surgically.Furthermore , in majority of the cases, it is detected when it has already affected liver/lungs/intestine. So the only solution at this stage is chemotherapy. Surgery and radiation are out of question. And chemotherapy is not at all effective. A pancreatic cancer patient is generally given few weeks to few months. My father passed away just 12 weeks after first diagnosis which was accidentally diagnosed because of persistent backache.
The only success that pancreatic cancer patients have is if it is detected in early stages by pre emption. Its survival rate is the least amongst cancer. If i am not wrong I read somewhere in US alone out of 45,000 patients detected with pancreatic cancer annually, 38000 do not survive first six months post diagnosis.
In Pakistan Shaukat Khanum does not deal with Pancreatic cancer because of its abysmal success rate. Private hospitals do. But globally, as me and my family searched for a cure , we were disappointed from every corner of the world. Even John Hopkins told us that pancreatic cancer patients generally don't survive if the stage is beyond 3... so please hope that no one has this disease and have blood tests after the age of 30 regularly twice a year for CA19-9 (pancreatic cancer marker)
Cancer is not a thing to be happy about, whether its your enemy.
PS:- A pancreatic cancer patient in my opinion cannot be that energetic as Putin (in my opinion).
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