Pancreatic cancer surgery
Superstar tenor Luciano Pavarotti has undergone pancreatic cancer surgery. The surgery was successful, but as a result of Mr. Pavarotti’s course of pancreatic cancer treatments: his remaining 2006 dates of his farewell tour have been canceled.
Terminal pancreatic cancer
Last week, just before Mr. Pavarotti was due to leave New York for Europe, doctors performing a round of routine medical checkups discovered a malignant pancreatic cancer.
Thanks to this weeks surgery for pancreatic cancer, this tumor has been successfully removed and Mr. Pavarotti is now recovering in a New York hospital.
Mr. Pavarotti is to undergo further pancreatic cancer treatments over the next few months, which can only mean that the surgery hasn’t removed all the cancers. One can imagine the cancer could have spread to the liver, but this are merely speculations.
In good spirits, Mr. Pavarotti is planning to restart his tour in 2007.
This year Mr. Pavarotti had already canceled several concerts for health problems, including complications from back and neck surgery. According his doctors, the pancreatic cancer was not related to those medical issues.
Dr. Elliot Newman, chief of gastrointestinal surgical oncology at N.Y.U. Cancer Institute, said the most common type of pancreatic cancer was also the most dangerous, with a pancreatic cancer survival rate after five years of about 10 to 14 percent. Other types of pancreatic cancer have much higher pancreatic cancer cure rates.
Concerning Mr. Pavarotti, spokeswoman Ms. Robson would not say what type of cancer was diagnosed.
According to the American Cancer Society, about 33,730 people in the United States will be found to have pancreatic cancer in 2006.
We wish Mr. Pavarotti a good recovery after this pancreatic cancer surgery.
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