Limor Appelbaum has seen too many sufferers whose first signal of a deadly sickness got here too late.
Typically it’s yellowed eyes from jaundice, attributable to a cancerous tumor on the pancreas that has grown so giant it presses in opposition to the bile duct system. By this level, little could be finished. “All we will actually provide them is one thing that may extend life by a number of months,” and luxury care, mentioned Appelbaum, a workers scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Middle.
Solely 11 p.c of individuals identified with pancreatic most cancers are alive 5 years later.
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