

I get up on the stage and the pains seem to go away for a while.” But Jones remained upbeat, telling Billboard’s Soul Sister podcast: “I’m not ready to give up yet. Pancreatic Cancer: What’s the difference? The film Miss Sharon Jones! was released on July 29, 2016. Some reports say Sharon Jones had cancer of the bile duct. Other articles say it was pancreatic cancer. Why the confusion? For a lot of reasons, it’s hard to tell these cancers apart. Some experts think that they’re just two different names for essentially the same thing. To understand this better, let’s start with the anatomy of the organs. The gallbladder is the green organ located under the liver on the left side of the picture. The gallbladder contains bile, a liquid substance made in the liver that helps the body to digest fat in the diet. Bile is stored in the gallbladder until it’s needed and then it’s pumped into the small intestine when food moves from the stomach to a part of the small intestine called the duodenum. The small pipe or tube connecting the gallbladder with the duodenum is called the bile duct. The pancreas is the yellow organ in the picture and one of its main functions is to make proteins called enzymes that aid in the digestion of food. Pancreatic juice is a liquid containing these enzymes that collects in a pipe or tube called the pancreatic duct, which empties into the duodenum and mixes with food passing by. Pancreatic ductal carcinoma is the most common form of pancreatic cancer.
