Palliative Procedures for Pancreatic Cancer
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Pancreatic Cancer Treatment: Palliative Procedures
If surgery to remove the entire tumor is not possible, CTCA clinicians may provide palliative procedures for pancreatic cancer. Palliative surgeries can help you experience a better quality of life, prevent treatment interruptions, and reduce liver damage.
For instance, surgical procedures such as biliary bypass, endoscopic stent placement, and gastric bypass can help relieve the jaundice and itching associated with pancreatic cancer.
Our surgical oncologists can also provide surgery to help relieve pleural effusion. Commonly experienced by pancreatic cancer patients, pleural effusion is an abnormal accumulation of fluids that results when cancer spreads to the pleura (the lining that protects the lungs) or abdomen. Surgery can help control this condition and make you more comfortable. Specifically, it can help prevent you from feeling constantly full so you regain your appetite and stay nutritionally fortified.
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