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Cancer of pancreas

Pancreatic cancer is a common digestive tract is one of the most common malignant tumors, mostly occurred in the pancreatic head. Painless abdominal pain and jaundice for the common symptoms of pancreatic cancer. Diabetes long-term heavy smoking, high fat, high animal protein diets, relatively higher incidence of this disease, mainly in the elderly, male patients more than premenopausal women, postmenopausal women and men, the incidence is similar. Etiology is not clear, some environmental factors and found that the occurrence of pancreatic cancer. The primary risk factor is set as smoking, diabetes, cholelithiasis alcohol (including beer), and chronic pancreatitis and other high-fat high-protein diet and eating refined flour foods, gastrectomy also risk factors for pancreatic cancer occurred, the mortality rate is high.