Pancreas
True or False: You cannot live without your pancreas.
False
In January of 1922, the first injection on this pancreatic substance was used to treat diabetes, reducing dangerous high blood glucose levels back to near-normal levels.
What is insulin?
Pancreatic cancer can cause early on-set this disease, where glucose destroys insulin-making cells.
What is diabetes?
This type of doctor specialize in diagnosing and treating cancer and blood disorders, including anemia, sickle cell disease, and leukemia?
What is an oncologist?
This month has been celebrated as Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month since 1999.
What is November?
The pancreas is located between this bone and organ.
What is the spine and stomach?
Most people with pancreatic cancer will have this term, meaning yellowing of the skin and whites and eyes, as their first symptom.
What is jaundice?
People with undiagnosed pancreatic cancer usually live for this amount of time.
What is 3 years?
Pancreatic cancer is represented by this color ribbon, similar to how breast cancer is represented by pink ribbons.
What is purple?
The pancreas are part of these two organ body systems whose function is to regulate bodily function through hormones and break down and turn food into fuel.
What is the Endocrine and Digestive System?
Diabetes, a chronic health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy and affects insulin production and glucose was first mentioned by Egyptians in this year, over 3000 years ago.
What is 1500 B.C.?
Pancreatic cancer may spread to nerves around the pancreases causing pain in these two regions.
What is the abdomen and the back?
People who partake in this activity are twice more likely to be prone to pancreatic cancer.
What is smoking?
This disease is characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells that can result in death if not treated.
What is Cancer?
Pancreatic cancer also increases the occurrence of blood clots. Another common symptom is also know as this, DVT, when a blood clot forms in the large leg vein.
What is Deep Vein Thrombosis?
These two procedures are the most common forms of treatment for pancreatic cancer.
What is chemotherapy and radiation?
True or False: Pancreatic cancer has the 3rd highest mortality rate out of all the cancers.
What is True?
This medical term refers to the inflammation of the pancreas.
What is pancreatitus?
This Italian anatomist was the first to discover a tumor in the pancreas in 1761.
Who is Giovanni Battista Morgagnia?
What is the gallbladder?
This surgical procedure, first successful in 1914, consists of the removal of the head of the pancreases, a part of the small intestine, gallbladder, and bile duct.
What is a pancreaticoduodenectomy?
This Canadian-American hosted Jeopardy! for 37 years before he passed away due to pancreatic cancer on November 8, 2020.
Who is Alex Trebek (rip)?