Dr Pippa Corrie - Interview 44

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A consultant oncologist explains that taking part in a clinical trial may give a patient an...
A consultant oncologist explains that taking part in a clinical trial may give a patient an...
A consultant oncologist explains why some patients may not have the opportunity to take part in...
A consultant oncologist explains why some patients may not have the opportunity to take part in...
A consultant explains that there are other trials taking place including trials involving PET...
A consultant explains that there are other trials taking place including trials involving PET...
A consultant explains that people may have little time to come to terms with death and dying, but...
A consultant explains that people may have little time to come to terms with death and dying, but...
A consultant explains that people with advanced pancreatic cancer are likely to get many symptoms...
A consultant explains that people with advanced pancreatic cancer are likely to get many symptoms...
A consultant explains that pain can be treated by specialist teams and that symptoms such as...
A consultant explains that pain can be treated by specialist teams and that symptoms such as...
A consultant explains what cancer is and why it may develop in any part of the body.
A consultant explains what cancer is and why it may develop in any part of the body.
So cells in the body are continually growing and dying, and they have to be replenished normally. And so the cells normally grow and divide under a very controlled process, but sometimes that controlled process goes wrong and uncontrolled growth leads to cancer. And this can happen in any organ of the body, such as the pancreas, and generate what we know as pancreatic cancer.
A consultant talks about a common type of pancreatic cancer, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, and a...
A consultant talks about a common type of pancreatic cancer, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, and a...
Another one which is less common we call pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer, and this tumour arises from cells that seem to have an hormonal function, sometimes generating the insulin, so you can form things like insulinomas, but sometimes actually arising from other hormonal cells, both in the pancreas and in other parts of the body, whose function we don’t fully understand. But these tumours we call neuroendocrine carcinomas and they tend to have a less aggressive pattern of behaviour. And it’s important to know which type you have because you treat them very differently.