"Doctor, how is it?" the patient's husband asked after wiping away his tears.
It was a very simple question, but at this moment, both Liu Banxia and Wang Huan found themselves speechless, unsure how to respond.
Tumor marker screening is a very important indicator. The patient's pancreatic head was quite large, and the mass prominent. However, the tumor marker screening had come back negative.
This presented a new problem: the cause of the enlargement might not be a tumor, but inflammation.
Yet, this conclusion led to another issue, one that contradicted common medical knowledge. The symptoms of pancreatitis usually indicated a shrinking organ.
They had treated patients with pancreatitis before; it was typically a self-destructive process within the organ, like a missile exploding in its silo.
If it was pancreatic cancer, why were the tumor markers negative? If it was inflammation, why was the pancreatic head still so enlarged? How should they explain this to the patient?
