Panceatic cancer is a malignant tumor in the pancreas gland located behind the stomach.
Henry Ford surgeons attack the pancreatic cancer differently with better outcomes.
When a patient is given a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, the survival rates vary based on the type of cancer in the pancreas. Not all cancers of the pancreas are adenocarcinoma; the patient could have other types of masses including neuroendocrine tumors, periampullary tumors and cystic lesions. Many types of pancreatic cancer are highly treatable. At Henry Ford, located in Detroit, Michigan, our surgeons work to determine what type of cancer the patient has and then a treatment plan is customized. (more...)
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Members of pancreas surgery service have performed several hundred pancreas operations in Michigan. Henry Ford Hospital meets the Leapfrog Group's (www.leapfroggroup.com) recommended quality and safety criteria for pancreatectomy (surgical removal of the pancreas) and receives Health Grades highest rating of 5-stars (www.healthgrades.com) for complex gastrointestinal operations and procedures.
Indeed, our surgeons perform in the top percentile of all pancreas surgery programs in the country.
The in-hospital 30-day mortality for these procedures is 3 percent for the most complex operations, such as the Whipple pancreatectomy and nearly 0 percent for the less complex surgeries, including distal pancreatectomy, central pancreatectomy and pancreaticojejunostomy for chronic pancreatitis.
Henry Ford's surgeons in Detroit operate one of Michigan's busiest pancreas surgery practices. Several of our surgeons perform laparoscopic distal pancreatectomies
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