Affiliation:
1. Department of Medicine and Surgery St Mary's Hospital Newport Isle of Wight
Abstract
SUMMARYHypercalcaemia is a common complication of malignancy seen in about 10% of cases of advanced cancer. Although hypercalcaemia is not uncommon with endocrine tumour of the pancreas, hypercalcaemia with cancer of the exocrine pancreas unrelated to bone metastasis has been rarely reported. We report a case of undifferentiated pancreatic cancer with severe hypercalcaemia due to parathyroid hormone‐related protein produced by the tumour cells that did not respond to medical management.