Pancreatic cancer is a malignant neoplasm with almost always poor prognosis.
Consider, in fact, that only 26% of patients are still alive one year after diagnosis and a paltry 5-6% after 5 years.
To make the situation even more problematic is the fact that, initially, pancreatic cancer presents with very vague symptoms and signs. Indeed, in some patients, it is completely asymptomatic.
This "silence" prevents an early diagnosis, which - it should be specified - would not be sufficient to make the prognosis positive.
Some possible manifestations of the initial phase of the disease are: pain in the back and / or abdomen, feeling of nausea and loss of appetite.
