The summarized medical treatments provide a starting point for your consideration and a basis for further discussion with your physician. The care and advice of a “pancreatologist”, a gastroenterologist or surgeon with expertise in pancreatic diseases, is of utmost importance.

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Background
Treatment of pain is usually targeted at masking the symptoms with pain medications, such as narcotics or nerve blocks. A significant amount of research is currently underway to detect newer ways of treating the pain associated with pancreatitis. Click here for more info.
 
Treatment of acute and chronic pancreatitis is directed at eliminating the causes of the disease and supporting the patient. Hospitalization is often necessary. Pain control is important and narcotics are generally required. Intravenous fluids and nutrition are important in maintaining homeostasis. Click here for more info.
 
Complete resection is the only effective treatment of pancreatic ductal carcinoma. Regrettably, such curative operations are possible in less than 15 percent of patients and are limited. For those individuals whose cancer is unresectable, symptomatic control should be the primary goal. Radiation therapy ( often accompanied by chemotherapy) to reduce pain, surgical or endoscopic correction of a blocked bile duct, and sufficient amounts of opioid analgesics may all be indicated. Click here for more info.
 
 
 
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