pancreatitis

Inflammation of the pancreas. Extremely painful!!!, usually requiring an inpatient stay in hospital and morphine and other supportive treatment. Can be fatal if complications occur. Caused by excessive alcohol consumption or gallstones.

'I was in so much pain with pancreatitis I was put on a morphine pump.'

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Pancreatic cancer

A bitch of a cancer that Elisabeth Sladen (or Sarah Jane Smith ) apparently died of.

n medicine, pancreatic cancer is a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. In typical usage, the term "pancreatic cancer" refers specifically to the significantly most common type of cancer, adenocarcinoma (and some variants thereof), that arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas, although the term can also reasonably be used to encompass less common types of cancer that also originate within the pancreas, and is quite frequently inclusive of the other exocrine cancers. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer death, both in the US and internationally.

Guy: Dude, I've got pancreatic cancer.
Guy 2: Difd

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