Pancreatic cancer is a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas.A disease in which malignant (cancer) cells are found in the tissues of the pancreas. Also called exocrine cancer. Estimated new cases and deaths from pancreatic cancer in the United States in 2009: New cases: 42,470, Deaths: 35,240
North Korea's secretive leader Kim Jong-il is suffering from life-threatening pancreatic cancer, according to a new report from the region. In recent days, fresh images released of Mr Kim have shown him looking gaunt and pale. The cancer diagnosis, if true, would explain the ailing 67-year-old's recent decision to name his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, 26, as his successor.
On January 7, 2008, step inside the operating room at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and watch as H. Richard Alexander, M.D., an internationally recognized surgical oncologist and a professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, performs a Whipple procedure on a patient with pancreatic cancer.
An unconfirmed report on South Korea's YTN television channel quoted unidentified intelligence sources in both China and South Korea claiming that Mr Kim was diagnosed with cancer when he suffered a stroke last year. The US National Cancer Institute puts the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer at 5.5 per cent. The precise state of the Mr Kim's health has long been a matter of obsession for observers of North Korea. In the past couple of years there have been several reports that the so-called "Dear Leader" was seriously unwell. Typically, there was no independent confirmation of yesterday's report from the reclusive Communist country.
Source : The Independent
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