And apparently most people do. He thinks she died peacefully. The only thing I can say is that death, I think, can be handled in many ways and you know I like to think that my Mother handled her death with such good humour and bravery.
Did your Mum have a peaceful death do you think? Yes, well as I say I think she had a very peaceful death. A lot of family visiting, and we were having a laugh. I think pretty much the day she died, maybe it was the, certainly the day before we had a laugh. I was there with my Aunts and my mother had wanted her hair to be washed.
She was very, very finickety about her hair, and normally went to the salon over the green. And so my Aunts washed her hair and there was a lot of laughter. And then to tease my mother I said I would blow dry it, and I did a kind of Italian hairdresser routine for her, and we had a, yes that was a laugh.
It certainly was not grim. Were you actually with her when she died? I was at home and my brother called me over. So I missed that moment. Several people wished they had got in touch with palliative care nurses earlier. John Interview 21 and his wife, for example, had assumed things were not bad enough and put off seeking their help.
Similarly, Simon regretted not getting the GP and the specialist palliative care nurses involved earlier. But when his wife Karen was dying, he contacted the local palliative care team. The nurses supported both him and his wife. They called frequently during the day and sometimes at night.
Sometimes they stayed in the house for two to three hours. As Karen became more frail she moved from the upstairs bedroom downstairs into the front room. The nurses managed to get a hospital bed with an electronic lifting mechanism to make nursing easier. As death approached Karen was sometimes unconscious, but when she noticed her surroundings she was glad to have members of the family by her bed.
Karen died peacefully. After she died Simon and his daughters spent some time with her. There was enough? They were just incredible people and incredibly efficient you know, they were in, they were really very impressive you know on every level. But once that machine was in place it was it was, yes it was brilliant. So would they come and wash Karen and do everything that was needed, when it got to that stage? They would do any of the nursing she wanted.
But it, but it, it was just far more than nursing. That was the amazing thing. And they cried as much as I did when she died……. And they would make sure I was alright. They were always making sure I was alright. They would help her do whatever she wanted to do. And just them being around was really reassuring. I kept their phone numbers on the fridge for months afterwards, just because it was so reassuring. All these numbers that I used to use in an emergency, I kept it but I kept it there because it was so as I say it was a sort of lifeline.
Simon encouraged his children, who were only two and four at the time, to spend time with their Whether she wanted to help me you know stroke her hand or something. And she did, and not only did she come in but she got onto the bed and kissed Karen and stroked her head. And her heart rate was going up like mad. In fact I was a bit worried. One of the nurses told Simon that Karen had opened her eyes just before she died. Simon was She looked as though she was sleeping. Yes, and I said to her that I thought it was time that she went.
And about maybe half an hour later the nurses arrived doing their normal daily thing. And they needed to change Karen, and basically we were in the kitchen and one of the nurses came in.
She opened her eyes and then and then died. And I think she sort of chose that moment to just you know call it a day. We were, we were, you know she gave birth to both of our children in this room, Did she? Combining alternative measures with traditional medical treatments may help to improve your quality of life. Yoga, meditation, and light exercise might promote a sense of well-being and make you feel better during treatment.
Early diagnosis significantly increases the chances of recovery. To make a diagnosis, your doctor will review your symptoms and medical history. They may order one or more tests to check for pancreatic cancer, such as:.
The five-year survival rate for all stages of pancreatic cancer is 9 percent. You may also consider:. Two types of surgery, Whipple procedure or a pancreatectomy , can remove a portion or all of the pancreas. This will eliminate the initial cancer tumor.
Unfortunately, the majority of pancreatic cancers are not found and diagnosed until the cancer is in an advanced stage and spread beyond the original site. Surgery may not be suitable at late stages of pancreatic cancer. If the cancer has spread to other areas of the body, removing the tumor or pancreas will not cure you.
Other treatments must be considered. While the cause of this type of cancer is unknown, there are certain risk factors that may increase your chances of developing pancreatic cancer. You may be at an increased risk if you:. Your DNA has a great influence on your health and the conditions you may develop. You can inherit genes that will increase your risk for pancreatic cancer. If the tumor has remained confined to the pancreas, surgery may be recommended. Whether or not surgery is an option is based on the exact location of the cancer.
The bottom half of the bile duct and the first part of the intestine are also removed. About 95 percent of pancreatic cancers are pancreatic adenocarcinomas. This type of pancreatic cancer develops in the exocrine cells of the pancreas. The majority of cells in the pancreas are these exocrine cells, which make pancreatic enzymes or make up the pancreatic ducts. This less common type of pancreatic cancer develops in the endocrine cells of the pancreas.
These cells are responsible for making hormones, including the ones that help manage blood sugar. Some risk factors that increase the likelihood you will develop this type of cancer cannot be changed. These include your gender, age, and DNA. However, some lifestyle changes and overall health approaches may reduce your risk. These include:. Pancreatic cancer tends to run in families, but is it actually hereditary?
Here's what you should know. Alex Trebek's announcement highlights a disease that affects more than 50, people every year, according to the American Cancer Society. The overall…. Surgery to remove the whole pancreas is rarely done anymore. What are the types of pancreatic cancer? The pancreas is an oblong organ that lies deep in the abdomen and is an integral part of both the digestive and endocrine system.
It secretes hormones to regulate the body and digestive enzymes to break down food. There are two types of pancreatic cancer: exocrine tumors and endocrine tumors. Exocrine tumors are the majority of pancreatic cancers, and the most common form is called adenocarcinoma, which begins in gland cells, usually in the ducts of the pancreas.
These tumors tend to be more aggressive than neuroendocrine tumors, the kind that Apple Inc. Diabetes after 50 could be early sign of pancreatic cancer, study says. They can be benign or malignant, but the distinction is often unclear and sometimes apparent only when the cancer has spread beyond the pancreas.
More advanced tumors have a higher risk of recurrence and can spread to the liver, said Dr. Treatment options. Pancreatic cancer is usually controllable only through removal by surgery and only if found before it has spread, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Palliative care can help a patient's quality of life if the disease has spread. Two drugs approved in may help patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. They are believed to suppress the blood supply and metabolism of the tumor cells. That's good progress since, the year before, the standard of care was chemotherapy, said Dr. Michaela Banck, a medical oncologist in New York, who treats patients with neuroendocrine tumors.
What are some of main symptoms as the cancer progresses? Unexplained weight loss, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting. Back pain is another one, because the pancreas is very posterior in the body. Back pain is also the most common complaint that patients go to an emergency room for, and most of the time it's just muscle pain—it's not pancreatic cancer.
The press reported that Upshaw's wife brought him to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing. What might have caused that? It could be for a number of reasons, such as if the disease has spread to the lungs. If he was so run-down from having lost a significant amount of weight, and he was weak and fatigued, he could have had difficulty breathing, too. It's hard to say. Another important thing with pancreatic cancer is that it's one of the cancers that is frequently associated with blood clots.
He could have had a blood clot in the lung, called a pulmonary embolism. It's possible that that's what killed him. What treatments are available if surgery isn't an option? Chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Sometimes we do both together. We are also using biologic agents now, meaning antibody therapy. There's a drug called Tarceva , which is an antibody [or immune protein] against the growth factor that the tumor cell makes, and so it blocks that growth signal.
It's given in combination with [a chemotherapy called] Gemcitabine. In a large randomized clinical trial , [the combination of the two drugs] was shown to improve upon Gemcitabine alone.
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