Researchers from the National Cancer Institute (United States) are of the opinion that obesity in adults increases the risks of developing pancreatic cancer. The researchers further assert that obesity in adults makes them 45% more vulnerable to pancreatic cancer over a period of 5 years.
Reports published in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggest that abdominal obesity, which is more common in women, increases the risk of developing pancreatic cancer.
What is Pancreatic Cancer?
Pancreatic condition is considered to be one of the most dangerous cancers that develop in the abdomen. Experts are of the opinion that pancreatic cancer is a disease when cancerous cells in the tissues of the pancreas begin to form.
Pancreatic Function
The pancreas functions in a way that it secretes enzymes that aid digestion and hormones that help enable the metabolism of carbohydrates.
Pitfalls of Pancreatic Cancer
Some dangers of pancreatic cancer are listed below:
- Difficult to detect
- Spreads very fast
- Build a resistance to most medications and treatments
Researchers from this institute have linked obesity and inactivity to pancreatic cancer because of its association with type 2 diabetes. Apparently, the researchers explained that in type 2 diabetes, the body does not respond to the insulin levels which are produced by the pancreas.
The increase in insulin levels researchers claim, have the tendency to encourage growth-like effects or more appropriately pancreatic tumors which spread at an increasing rate. This stand has somehow been disillusioned by this theory that type 2 diabetes thereby making diabetes a connecting factor for obesity and inactivity for causing pancreatic cancer.
Some symptoms of pancreatic include — nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain which spreads to the upper back, itching, digestion problems, weight loss, appetite loss, and yellowing skin and eyes like in jaundice.
Source: Pancreatic Cancer
