How long can you live conservatively with pancreatic cancer?



When pancreatic cancer is diagnosed, if it is in the early to mid-stage, aggressive treatment measures such as surgery should generally be pursued aggressively. Conservative treatment of pancreatic cancer is often carried out when the diagnosis is advanced and the opportunity of active surgical treatment is lost. The purpose of treatment is to improve the quality of life and try to prolong life, which can be lived for half a year to one year, and the survival time is relatively short.

Pancreatic cancer has a kind of malignant tumor disease, conservative treatment usually refers to do palliative treatment through medication or nutritional support, etc., which can achieve the effect of delaying the progression of the disease, and at the same time can improve the quality of life and increase the survival time of patients.

If the effect of conservative treatment is good, the survival time will be prolonged accordingly, and the patient can usually survive for about one year. However, if the patient’s physical condition is relatively weak, and even physical and mental anxiety and loss of appetite occur, it is likely to lead to the shortening of the survival time, and the patient can usually survive for about half a year.

Pancreatic cancer is a cancer that occurs in the pancreas and has a high degree of malignancy, so regular medical checkups are needed to achieve “early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment”.