Metastatic liver cancer

Having put my teeth in the latest Pavarotti Pancreatic Cancer, I got stuck again on the word carcinoma, which reminded me of fathers’ adenocarcinoma, which at that time explained by a doctor in our family was "the word they use for this kind of cancer in general"… All I remember is they used a lot of words but never got a cure

Anyway, I do love to learn new things, so I found some types of pancreatic cancer:

Types of pancreatic cancer

1. Cancer of the pancreas

This is called carcinoma of the pancreas or pancreatic cancer. This cancer develops in the ducts that carry pancreatic juices to the pancreatic duct and the duodenum. This is the most common type of pancreatic cancer. Surgery is the main cure for pancreatic cancer if that is possible.

2. Cancer in the cells that make insulin and other hormones

This is a rare type of pancreatic cancer and cancer that begins in these cells is called islet cell cancer.

3. Lymphoma of the pancreas

This is a very rare cancer. It’s a cancer of the lymphatic systems in the body. As this lymphatic system runs throughout the body, it can be anywhere.

I do remember the doctors saying about father’s metastatic liver cancer with unknown primary: since we don’t know where the primary cancer is, it might as well be located in the lymphatic system (there could have been an indication in the little hot spot on the MRI scan in father’s shoulder). And when it is located in the lymphatic system, again there is nothing we can do…

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