Pancreatic cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the pancreas. Smoking and health history can affect the risk of pancreatic cancer. Signs and symptoms of pancreatic cancer include jaundice, pain, and weight loss. • Imaging tests that Create Pictures of Your Internal Organs. • Using a Scope to Create Ultrasound Pictures of Your Pancreas. • Removing a Tissue Sample for Testing (Biopsy) • Blood Test

1. DIAGNOSIS OF
PANCREATIC CANCER
DR. DODUL MONDAL
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2. T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
What is Pancreatic Cancer
01
Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer
02
Imaging tests that Create Pictures of Your
Internal Organs.
03
Using a Scope to Create Ultrasound Pictures of
Your Pancreas.
04
Removing a Tissue Sample for Testing (Biopsy)
05
Blood Test
06

3. Pancreatic cancer begins in the tissues of your pancreas — an organ
in your abdomen that lies behind the lower part of your stomach.
Your pancreas releases enzymes that aid digestion and produce
hormones that help manage your blood sugar.
Several types of growths can occur in the pancreas, including
cancerous and noncancerous tumors. The most common type of
cancer that forms in the pancreas begins in the cells that line the
ducts that carry digestive enzymes out of the pancreas (pancreatic
ductal adenocarcinoma).
WHAT IS PANCREATIC CANCER?

4. D I A G N O S I S O F P A N C R E A T I C C A N C E R
Imaging tests that create pictures of your
internal organs.
Using a scope to create ultrasound pictures
of your pancreas.
Removing a tissue sample for testing
(biopsy).
Blood test.

5. IMAGING TESTS THAT CREATE PICTURES OF YOUR
INTERNAL ORGANS.
These tests help your doctors visualize your
internal organs, including the pancreas.
Techniques used to diagnose pancreatic cancer
include ultrasound, computerized tomography
(CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
and, sometimes, positron emission tomography
(PET) scans.

6. USING A SCOPE TO CREATE ULTRASOUND
PICTURES OF YOUR PANCREAS.
An endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) uses an
ultrasound device to make images of your
pancreas from inside your abdomen. The device is
passed through a thin, flexible tube (endoscope)
down your esophagus and into your stomach in
order to obtain the images.

7. REMOVING A TISSUE SAMPLE FOR TESTING
(BIOPSY)
A biopsy is a procedure to remove a small tissue
sample for examination under a microscope. The
tissue is often collected during EUS by passing
special tools through the endoscope. Less often,
a tissue sample is collected from the pancreas by
inserting a needle through your skin and into
your pancreas (fine-needle aspiration).

8. BLOOD TEST
Your doctor may test your blood for specific proteins
(tumor markers) shed by pancreatic cancer cells. One
tumor marker test used in pancreatic cancer is called
CA19-9. It may be helpful in understanding how the
cancer responds to treatment. But the test isn't always
reliable because some people with pancreatic cancer
don't have elevated CA19-9 levels, making the test
less helpful.

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