Monday, September 10, 2018

Improving the Nutritional Status of a Patient with Pancreatic Cancer (PC)-Juniper Publishers

Improving the Nutritional Status of a Patient with Pancreatic Cancer (PC) - Juniper Publishers

Improving the Nutritional Status of a Patient with Pancreatic Cancer (PC) by Chimene Castor in NFSIJ- Juniper publishers


Incidence & Mortality: Cancer is one of the major leading causes of death in US (US), second only to cardiovascular disease [1,2]. PC (PC) is the most common fatal cancer after lung, colorectal and breast cancer. It is projected to be the second leading cause of cancer death by 2030 [3]. Most PC patients will die within the first year of diagnosis [4]. Overall the mortality rates of most cancers such as lung, prostate, breast, cervix and colon/rectum have been reduced, but the mortality rate for pancreatic rates have been slowly increasing. The overall five-year survival rate of PC is only 7.2% as compared to the overall cancer survival rate of 66.5%. PC, the 12th most common cancer in the US, is the 4th most common cause of cancer-related deaths in both men and women in the US [2]. In 2015, about 48,960 new cases of PC out of the 1,6580,370 new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed. About 77% of all cancers are diagnosed in people 55 years of age and older. Five hundred and eighty-nine thousand, four hundred and thirty Americans are expected to die from cancer in 2015, of which an estimated 40,560 cases will die from PC. From 2007 to 2011, the death rate for PC increased by 0.3% per year [1]. African Americans have higher rates of PC incidence and mortality than whites or other racial/ethnic groups [2]. PC incidence and mortality rates also are higher in men than in women. Epidemiologic studies reveal several disparities in cancer death rates by race and socio-economic status. In the years 2006-2010, it was reported that African Americans had higher cancer incidence and cancer death rates than whites or other racial/ethnic groups. People with lower socio-economic status (SES) have disproportionately higher cancer death rates than those with higher SES. This might be the result of poor diet, physical inactivity, and tobacco use for people with lower SES [1,2,5,6]

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