These are unfortunately on patient just recently scanned here at my facility. The study was ordered after seeing a possible mass on the bottom of a chest CT for evaluation of a lung mass. There is a mass on the tail of pancreas. This mass is very suspicious for malignancy due to the characterization presented on the MRI images and the patients history on the CT. These MRI images are axial and coronal Fast SPGR with fat saturation on. This lesion demonstrates enhancement post contrast. If this is determined to be pancreatic cancer and has spread to lungs the prognosis is usually not good. This is one of the things that can make in my opinion our jobs as diagnostic technologists tough! In fact, according to literature found on website, https//health.google.com/health/ref/pacreatic+carcinoma, 95% of patients do not survive longer than 5 years.
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