Pancreatic Cancer

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[Verse 1]
Painless yellow eyes, the skin turns gold like a secret told too slow,
No ache, no clue, just wasting weight she didn't know would go,
Courvoisier's sign — gallbladder swells, soft and round, won't make a sound,
Nontender, big, painless too — a quiet drum with no beat to pound.
It's insidious, sneaking in without a warning bell to ring,
By the time it's caught, the story's often a hard, late thing.

[Chorus]
Olha o pâncreas, cuidado, vem escondido — watch it close, it hides,
Jaundice sem dor, peso caindo — weight falls away, the body lies,
Courvoisier, vesícula calada, silent sac that swells so wide,
Head or tail, cuidado, meu amor — this cancer's hard to catch in time.

[Verse 2]
Can we cut it? Ask the vessels first before you pick the knife,
SMA, celiac axis, common hepatic — they decide the life,
Portal vein, SMV too — if they're wrapped, you call it tight,
Resectable, borderline, or locally advanced — three names in sight.
Clear of vessels, go and resect; if touched, you think again,
Neoadjuvant chemo first, shrink it down, open up the lane.

[Chorus]
Olha o pâncreas, cuidado, vem escondido — watch it close, it hides,
Jaundice sem dor, peso caindo — weight falls away, the body lies,
Courvoisier, vesícula calada, silent sac that swells so wide,
Head or tail, cuidado, meu amor — this cancer's hard to catch in time.

[Verse 3]
Head of the pancreas, call the Whipple, nineteen thirty-five the year it came,
Duodenum, head, and bile duct out, reroute the whole drain,
Tail tumor? Distal pancreatectomy, take the spleen along the way,
Watch the stump — postop fistula's the villain waiting there to stay.
Amylase-rich fluid leaking, drains will tell the tale,
Leak control and patient patience — that's the healing trail.

[Bridge]
mFOLFIRINOX depois da faca, adjuvant to hold the line,
Four drugs fighting, months of courage, buying precious time,
Still the numbers whisper quiet — ten, twelve percent, five years,
We keep cutting, keep believing, chemo dulling all the fears.

[Verse 4]
IPMN, a cyst that's dreaming — most will never turn to harm,
But watch the duct, the mural nodule, CA nineteen-nine's alarm,
Main duct wide, a bump inside, numbers climbing up the chart,
Resect it before it wakes up — cut the villain from the start.

[Chorus]
Olha o pâncreas, cuidado, vem escondido — watch it close, it hides,
Jaundice sem dor, peso caindo — weight falls away, the body lies,
Courvoisier, vesícula calada, silent sac that swells so wide,
Head or tail, cuidado, meu amor — this cancer's hard to catch in time.

[Outro]
Vesícula calada, cuidado, meu amor, o pâncreas sabe esconder,
Head or tail, vessels or cysts — now, beginner, you know what to see.

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