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Is Abdominal Pain A Symptom Of Pancreatic Tumor?

My 94 year old Dad just had a C T scan done in the E.R. I was told to take him to talk to family Doctor to talk over options about treatment for a mass they found on his pancreas How do they know it is not infection or something else why is he so certain its something bad. We went to er with just symptoms of pain in abdom
Mon, 21 Nov 2016
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Hi.
Sorry to hear about the health of your grand father. So far as your question is concerned CT SCAN abdomen is capable of diffentiating collections, cyst or abscesses from solid growths. Moreover keeping in view the age of patient , the suspician of having a tumor or cancerous growth is highly likely. The best thing to do is to visit a surgeon and get it worked out for a confirmative diagnosis as early as possible. If is turns out to be an infection/collection or any other benign pathalogy that great. On the other hand, if it is some sort of malicious growth it needs to be dealt with as early as possible. Wishing best of health to grand father and all of your family.
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Is Abdominal Pain A Symptom Of Pancreatic Tumor?

Hi. Sorry to hear about the health of your grand father. So far as your question is concerned CT SCAN abdomen is capable of diffentiating collections, cyst or abscesses from solid growths. Moreover keeping in view the age of patient , the suspician of having a tumor or cancerous growth is highly likely. The best thing to do is to visit a surgeon and get it worked out for a confirmative diagnosis as early as possible. If is turns out to be an infection/collection or any other benign pathalogy that great. On the other hand, if it is some sort of malicious growth it needs to be dealt with as early as possible. Wishing best of health to grand father and all of your family. Regards.