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Precisely. It's that "metastatic before symptoms appear" part that gets you.

Pancreatic cancer doesn't generally compromise the pancreas before it metastasizes and compromises something else. That's the worst thing about that one; the first self-identifiable symptom is usually "My stomach is upset (because this thing has already grown past the borders of the pancreas and is now playing general hell with the abdominal cavity)."



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