Whipple Procedure Pancreatic Cancer

I am doing a report on cancer panreatic and found that the procedure used to remove the pancreas is called a Whipple procedure. "There is a large operation where the surgeon removes the head of the pancreas and part of the small intestine, bile duct, and stomach, and then reconnects the gastrointestinal tract and biliary system. "Why they do this and not only remove the tumor?

They also remove the gallbladder and lymph nodes. The pancreas is not very great for beginners and it shares the same arterial blood supply with the duodenum. These arteries pass through the head of the pancreas and it is unlikely that you could remove a tumor without causing damage to at least one of them. When you do surgery to remove the cancer you are shooting good clear margins and with pancreatic cancer is the only chance to do so and remvoing whole head is the most likely possible. Less than 20% of patients have resectable disease, and few of them have cancer limited to the pancreas, those with a rate of 5-year survival of 55%.

Several times, the tumor will be attached to the pancreas in a manner that would allow him to push except that the tumor was removed. think of a tumor as a weed, you must remove the root or it will grow back. removing where he sits on the organ, you take the "roots" with her ...