The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that demand for sonographers will grow by 44 percent between 2010 and 2020, much faster than the average for all occupations. This is largely due to increased use of sonography in physicians' offices and smaller clinical settings.
When pancreatic cysts do cause symptoms, signs such as nausea, vomiting, persistent abdominal pain or a mass in the upper abdomen occur, reports Mayo Clinic. An individual should seek a doctor if fever and persistent abdominal pain appear.
Surgery may be needed to remove some benign cysts: an enlarged pseudocyst or a serous cystadenoma that's causing pain or other symptoms. Other types of pancreatic cysts generally require surgical removal because of the risk of cancer and to enable them to be fully evaluated to determine if cancer cells are present.