The pancreas is an oblong flattened gland in the digestive and endocrine system located in the abdomen. By secreting pancreatic juice to the small intestine, the pancreas aids the digestive system in breaking down carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids.
Traditional Chinese medicine suggests that the pancreas is a vital organ responsible for the absorption of foods' qi and nutrients before passing them to other organs to nourish our bodies.
Pancreatic cancer is a chronic condition characterized by cell growth irregularly in the tissues of the pancreas.
At the early stage, patients with pancreatic cancer may be asymptomatic. However, at the later stage, besides the common symptoms shared by all types of cancer such as unintended weight loss, loss of appetite, fatigue, and gastrointestinal discomforts, patients with the condition may also experience localized symptoms such as internal bleeding and severe pain due to the oversize tumor which suppresses the nerve cells and blood vessels.
According to statistics, every year, approximately, over 55,000 adults in the United States are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, accounting for 3% of all cancers and 7% of all cancer deaths.
The survival rate of pancreatic cancer even if diagnosed early is very low compared to other types of cancer. The 5-year survival rate for stage IA pancreatic cancer is only14%.
Researchers do not know what causes pancreatic cancer. Scientists do not know the exact causes of pancreatic cancers, but they do know several risk factors that can make a person more likely to get the disease, including the genetic and acquired genetic mutation of p16 and TP53 and KRAS, BRAF, and DPC4 (SMAD4).
Other prevalent risk factors, including long-term use of tobacco, exposure to certain chemicals, overweight, and obesity, and unpreventable risk factors of family history, gender, the increase of age, and ethnicity are associated with the early onset of pancreatic cancer.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center suggested an unhealthy diet high in meats, cholesterol, fried foods, and nitrosamines may increase risk, while diets high in fruits and vegetables reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer.
However, most people with some of the above risk factors do not get the disease.
In finding a potent ingredient for the treatment of diseases associated with abnormal cell growth, researchers investigated the consumption of raw fruits and vegetables' effects on pancreatic cancer.
According to the dietary habits and medical history variables in a prospective study of fatal pancreas cancer among 34,000 California Seventh-day Adventists between 1976 and 1983. Forty deaths from pancreas cancer occurred during the follow-up period,
* Compared to all US whites, Adventists experienced a decreased risk of pancreas cancer death (standardized mortality ratio [SMR] = 72 for men; 90 for women),
* Furthermore, increasing consumption of vegetarian protein products, beans, lentils, and peas, as well as dried fruit, was associated with highly significant protective relationships to pancreas cancer risk compared to increased risk in increasing meat, egg, and coffee consumption.
In other words, regular consumption of raw fruits and vegetables exerted protective relationships associated with a protease-inhibitor content that decreases the risk of pancreas cancer in high-risk patients.
Taken together, fruits and vegetables may be considered a functional food for the prevention of pancreas cancer, pending the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.
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Sources
(1) Dietary habits and past medical history as related to fatal pancreas cancer risk among Adventists by Mills PK1, Beeson WL, Abbey DE, Fraser GE, Phillips RL.(PubMed)
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