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Re:Hacked Raspberry Pi turned into artificial pancreas by mrfusion on Friday August 28, 2015 @09:13AM (#10135153)
What are the other functions?
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Re:Hacked Raspberry Pi turned into artificial pancreas by odabaxok on Friday August 28, 2015 @09:34AM (#10135271)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreas#Function

"It is possible for one to live without a pancreas, provided that the person takes insulin for proper regulation of blood glucose concentration and pancreatic enzyme supplements to aid digestion."

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Re:Hacked Raspberry Pi turned into artificial pancreas by mrfusion on Friday August 28, 2015 @11:56AM (#10136145)
Interesting. I've always wondered why we don't simply remove the entire pancreas for cases of pancreatic cancer?
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Re:Hacked Raspberry Pi turned into artificial pancreas by OopsCriticality on Friday August 28, 2015 @01:00PM (#10136591)
Because there is no clinical evidence for the survival benefit of total pancreatectomy over a Whipple.

There's absolutely nothing simple about surgery when the pancreas is involved.

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Re:Hacked Raspberry Pi turned into artificial pancreas by mrfusion on Friday August 28, 2015 @02:17PM (#10137036)
Do you have a citation for that? I'd be curious to read more.

Intiutively it sounds wrong since I'd image any cancer that comes back after the whipple is coming from left over cancer cells in the pancreas, no?

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Re:Hacked Raspberry Pi turned into artificial pancreas by agumonkey on Friday August 28, 2015 @12:49PM (#10136516)
It's saddening that a possibly avoidable organ leads to the most "lethal" cancer.
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