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Pancreatic Cancer

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Pancreatic cancer is cancer that begins in the pancreas. Symptoms for pancreatic cancer include dark urine, fatigue, jaundice, weight loss, nausea, and pain in upper abdomen.

Treatment for pancreatic cancer includes chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery. Common drug classes used to treat pancreatic cancer are EGFR inhibitors, kinase inhibitors, and nucleoside metabolic inhibitors.

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