Published On : Mon, Sep 29th, 2014

Scientists discover early signs of pancreatic cancer

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Pancreatic cancer awareness supportNagpur: Scientists recently identified one of the symptomatic upsurge secretions of certain amino acids which are often found in patients before being diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. This could be seen as a sign of the early development of the Pancreatic Cancer.

However, even though the increase wasn’t significant enough to base a new test for early detection of the disease, the pancreatic-cancer awarenessfindings would certainly aid Scientists or Researchers to understand the disease better and how pancreatic cancer affects the rest of the body. Scientist would certainly like to find out how it could trigger the often deadly muscle-wasting disease known as Cachexia.

In the available universe of research, the researchers utilized blood samples collected many years ago from 1,500 people participating in health-tracking studies.

Pancreatic-Cancer-2The scientists had analyzed the samples for 100 different metabolites; substances produced by the metabolic process, and compared the results from participants who had gone on to develop pancreatic cancer and those who had not been diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer.

The period in the actual appearance of the disease could be in those individuals diagnosed with pancreatic cancer could ranged from two to 25 years. However, the highest risk was several years before diagnosis, the researchers found. The scientists also found that the increase was due to a breakdown of muscle tissue, which caused branched amino acids to be released into the bloodstream.

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