Health Tips | If a tumor grows on the pancreas, does it mean pancreatic cancer?

Pancreatic cancer is highly malignant and progresses rapidly, but its onset is insidious and its early symptoms are atypical. Most patients are already in the middle or late stages when they seek clinical treatment. It is known as the "king of cancer."

But if a tumor grows on the pancreas, does it mean pancreatic cancer? The 18th issue of Health Truth invites Pan Zhan, deputy chief physician of the Oncology Department of Xiamen University Zhongshan Hospital, and Tang Qin, chief researcher of the Science Popularization Department of the Chinese Medical Association, to explain it to you.

The "Health Truth" column was jointly created by Science Rumor Debunking and the People's Daily Health Client. The column focuses on common disease misunderstandings, rumors, and gossip, and invites doctors from public tertiary hospitals to analyze health truths and help disease education.

At present, the People's Daily Health Client has built a knowledge base of more than 1,400 diseases. Through multimedia forms such as text, video, live broadcast, question and answer, it provides users with authoritative, scientific, and easy-to-understand popular science knowledge on disease prevention and treatment, and provides an authoritative query platform for medical popular science knowledge. At the same time, within the disease check, one can switch to asking doctors and hospitals for recommendations with one click, quickly access the patient's diagnosis and treatment process, and provide full disease process services.

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