With the passage of time, patients experience nausea, lose weight and often develop more intense pain centered in the abdomen or boring into the back. As the tumor grows, it blocks bile drainage. As bile backs up in the blood, the skin turns yellow. By the time doctors detect pancreatic cancer, it almost always has spread to lymph nodes, liver or lungs. Your husband's course was rapid, but not surprisingly so.
Many patients succumb within a year of diagnosis.
The cancer generally infiltrates those organs. Radiation and chemotherapy frequently follow surgery. The statistics for pancreatic cancer are grim. I've been told that vitamin B-4 is adenine. They called adenine vitamin B-4.