Is pancreatic head cancer curable?

Pancreatic head cancer is highly malignant. Whether it can be clinically cured mainly depends on tumor stage, lymph node metastasis, timely treatment, etc.

If pancreatic head cancer is discovered earlier and belongs to early stage pancreatic head cancer without lymph node metastasis, the patient will be treated with radical surgery to remove the lesion, and adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy will be used after surgery to help kill cancer cells comprehensively. The success rate of clinical cure is higher and the patient can survive for a long time. For patients with advanced pancreatic head cancer, the cancer cells spread to many organs and tissues of the body, and even surgery cannot be performed. Palliative treatment can only be used to prolong the survival time of patients and relieve pain, so it is usually impossible to cure.