What is Pancreatic-Cancer
Pancreatic cancer (also called cancer of the pancreas) is represented by the growth of a malignant tumour within the small pancreas organ. Each year about 31,000 individuals in the...
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Pancreatic Cancer Treatments
| Treatment | Description | Reviewed by | Helps | |
 | Chemotherapy | Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. In its modern-day us... Read Reviews | 33 Members | 74% of the time |
| Whipple Procedure | A pancreaticoduodenectomy, Whipple procedure, or Kausch-Whipple procedure, is a major... Read Reviews | 27 Members | 82% of the time |
| Gemcitabine | Gemcitabine is a nucleoside used as chemotherapy. It is marketed as Gemzar? by Eli Li... Read Reviews | 25 Members | 81% of the time |
| Radiotherapy | Radiotherapy is commonly used for the treatment of malignant tumours (cancer), and ma... Read Reviews | 11 Members | 88% of the time |
| 5-FU | Fluorouracil (5-FU) is a drug that is used in the treatment of cancer. It belongs to ... Read Reviews | 10 Members | 78% of the time |
| Tarceva | Erlotinib hydrochloride (trade name Tarceva, Genentech/OSIP, originally coded as OSI-... Read Reviews | 9 Members | 67% of the time |
| Cisplatin | Cisplatin or cis-diamminedichloroplatinum is a platinum-based chemotherapy drug used ... Read Reviews | 3 Members | 100% of the time |
| Crying | To weep is to make less the depth of grief. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Read Reviews | 2 Members | 100% of the time |
| Wellbutrin | Bupropion (amfebutamone) (brand names Wellbutrin and Zyban) is an antidepressant of t... Read Reviews | 1 Member | 100% of the time |
| Positive Thinking | Positive thinking and a positive attitude may indeed have power. In recent years scie... Read Reviews | 1 Member | 100% of the time |
| Surgery | Surgery is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual... Read Reviews | 1 Member | 100% of the time |
| Humex | See Humex. | 1 Member | 100% of the time |
| Support from Friends & Family | The support and encouragement of friends and family can have a very powerful effect o... Read Reviews | 1 Member | 100% of the time |
| Prayer | Prayer is an active effort to communicate with a deity or spirit either to offer prai... Read Reviews | 1 Member | 100% of the time |
| Aranesp | Darbepoetin alfa (rINN)is a synthetic form of erythropoietin. It stimulates erythropo... Read Reviews | 1 Member | 100% of the time |
