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Essay On Pancreatic Cancer

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Cancer is a disease where there are uncontrolled division of cells that goes on in the body and invade different tissues. Cancer can also be caused if there is a mutation in the DNA after birth, Things that cause gene mutation is smoking, radiation, viruses, carcinogens, obesity, hormones, and chronic inflammation and a lack of exercise. In the cell cycle of cancer there are signaling pathways that are sent and that can make a cell either grow, replicate, and divide. There are different mechanisms that are used to ensure errors are corrected, and if not apoptosis begins and the cell dies. In the cycle G1 phase starts and the cell grows and prepares to synthesise, and the S phase is when the cells begin to synthesise, and the G2 phase is when …show more content…

158,080 people died from lung cancer every year. 41,780 people died from pancreatic cancer every year. 26,120 people died from prostate cancer. 1,980 people died from thyroid cancer this year. This year 564,800 people are expected to die of cancer, and more than 1,500 people die of cancer each day.

The type of cancer we have is the pancreatic cancer which uses digestive juices and hormones to regulate blood sugar.
Pancreatic cancer is diagnosed primarily through the use of computed tomography (CT) scans,magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
53,070 people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year and 41,780 people died from it. People who are older than 45 years old are more likely to have Pancreatic Cancer, Black people are more likely to have pancreatic cancer than any other race in the United States, smokers are more likely to get Pancreatic Cancer along with any other cancer than non smokers, people who are diagnosed with diabetes are more likely to develop Pancreatic Cancer, Women are more likely to have Pancreatic Cancer than Men, and an exposure to chemicals can also lead to Pancreatic

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