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WHAT IS IT?
In the United States are diagnosed each year 29,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer each year, a disease that ranks fifth in cancer mortality worldwide. This is one of the types of tumors difficult to diagnose because symptoms often appear when the disease is already too late a stage.
In addition, the location of this gland prevents smaller tumors are detected during routine screening.
The pancreas is a gland in the abdomen between the stomach and the spine, and close to other organs like the intestine or liver.
With its distinctive pear-shaped, the pancreas is responsible for making insulin and other hormones, which reach the bloodstream and circulate throughout the body with the objective of using or accumulate for later energy from food. In addition, this gland also secretes pancreatic juices, which contain enzymes necessary to digest food.
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Radiation therapy is one of the most Effective Treatment techniques for cancer is the Measurement and Dosimetry of Administered dose ionizing radiation to a cancer patient. The Radiation Treatment is based on Destroying tumors by ionizing radiation (gamma radiation, high energy X rays or electrons), Which produces breaks in DNA chains, progressive Causing destruction of cancer cells.
