Diabetes and Bladder and Bowel Control. People with diabetes commonly experience problems with controlling their bladder and bowel. The incontinence refers to bladder and bowel control problems. This can involve accidental leakage, incomplete emptying, passing urine frequently (frequency) or feeling the need to rush to the toilet (urgency). Poor control of the bladder and bowel is an important health problem.
The Whipple Procedure Explained. The Whipple procedure is more than just an alternative for the mouthful word pancreaticoduodenoctomy. It is more than a major surgical procedure to remove a portion of the pancreas, bile duct, gallbladder, duodenum and stomach. It is a ray of light amidst the darkness that is pancreatic cancer.
The Whipple procedure could be performed for any of the following reasons: 1  chronic pancreatitis. 2  pancreatic cancer (in the head of the pancreas) 3  cancer of the small intestine.  cholangiocarcinoma â (a cancer in the bile duct)