[Faline]

A 50-year-old lady presented with pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen for one month. The pain was dull aching, continued, mild to moderate in severity, not radiating and not related to food. There were also complaints of generalized weakness for one month, but there was no history of fever, vomiting, jaundice, abdominal distention, loss of weight, and loss of appetite. Bowel and bladder habits were normal. Two months earlier, the patient had been diagnosed as anemic and treated with multiple blood transfusions.

On examination there was a single mass palpable occupying the right hypochondrium, right lumbar, and umbilical area, about 15x12cm. The upper border was extending under the subcostal margin; the lower border was extending up to the level of the iliac crest. The mass was non-tender, firm to hard in consistency; the surface was nodular, and not moving with respiration.

Abdominal CT: Rt. kidney and superior mesenteric vein:




Tumour:

[**butterflylove**]

pancreatic cancer has a very poor survival rate

[dragonhalf13570]

@ButterflyLove, yeah that's what I have heard too unless its spotted very early on, which from what I learned, isn't easy because its hard to detect it until it gets to the point where its already spread to other organs and tissues. Poor woman though, I wonder if she made it. I like to think she recovered. I hope she did.

[Faline]

Isn't this what Patrick Swayze died from?

[Faline]

I just googled and it was

[**butterflylove**]

^^^ its very agressive and people seldom live past a year after diagnosis and @ dragon you are so right, the early symptoms of pancreatic cancer are vague and the cancer isn't usually diagnosed until the cancer is advanced and even spread - also because the pancreas is close to the Liver it usually speads there first. Its one of the 'worst' (if there is such a thing) cancer to get...I have seen people die horribly from it. Ovarian cancer is the same - by the time a diagnosis is made its usually too late