Most Successful Preventative Medical Interventions for Pancreatic Cancer

Abstract

Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers in the world and has continued to increase in severity among people due to the increase in the aging population, rising rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and etc, resulting in low survival rates and significant impacts on the quality of lives (Klein, 2021). As a result, this cancer has led to the development of many different types of treatments in order to slow down or stop the rate of pancreatic cancer from spreading or becoming severe. Some of these treatments include surgical interventions (whipple procedure, total pancreatectomy, and distal pancreatectomy), immunotherapy, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, targeted therapy, and vaccines. This study aims to evaluate the most effective therapeutic strategies for enhancing patient outcomes by evaluating comprehensive analysis on clinical data, and investigating how these strategies affect the survival rates and overall patient well-being over 3 years after getting medical intervention. From this study, it can be concluded that distal pancreatectomy is preferable compared to other medical interventions due to its balance of lower complication rates, effective pain relief, and satisfactory survival outcomes, especially for tumors that are located in the tail of the pancreas. Comparatively, other treatments, while useful in specific contexts, present a higher risk and long term complications that can affect patients’ quality of life.