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Is the entire pancreas always removed in pancreatic cancer operations?

April 26, 2017cancer entire operations pancreas pancreatic removed

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Is the entire pancreas always removed in pancreatic cancer operations?

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The complete removal of the pancreas is the exception. Only very few tumors grow along the pancreas ducts inside the pancreas thusly attacking the entire organ, without also producing metastases (secondary malignant growths in a different part of the body).