• Question: What is the most dangerous type of cancer? What is the treatment?

    Asked by shxnah to Dawn, David on 15 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Dawn Lau

      Dawn Lau answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      I think pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest. The pancreas is responsible for producing insulin which regulates blood sugar levels, and it helps break down food. Pancreatic cancer is hard to spot because it doesn’t cause symptoms until it’s usually too late for surgery. Even when it is caught early enough for surgery, the cancer usually comes back, or it has spread to other parts of the body. Usually the treatment is surgery to remove most of the pancreas, otherwise if that isn’t an option, then chemotherapy and radiotherapy are used as treatment.

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