Pancreatic Cancer Facts 2011

Pancreatic Cancer Facts 2011 Pancreatic Cancer Is One Of The DEADLIEST CANCERS. • Pancreatic Cancer Is The 10 Th Most Commonly …

Pancreatic cancer is one of the DEADLIEST CANCERS.

Pancreatic cancer is the 10 most commonly diagnosed cancer, but the 4 leading cause of cancer death in the United States.

Of all the cancers tracked by both the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute, pancreatic cancer is the only one with a relative five-year survival rate in the single digits: Ninety-four percent of patients die within five years of diagnosis and 74 percent die within one year.

Unlike many other cancers, the survival rate for the disease has not improved substantially in the 40 years since passage of the National Cancer Act. Since 1975, the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer has moved from 3 percent to only 6 percent.

It is estimated that in 2011, 44,030 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and 37,660 will die from the disease.

Of all the racial/ethnic groups in the United States, African Americans have the highest incidence rate of pancreatic cancer, between 34 percent and 70 percent higher than the other groups.

Both the number of new pancreatic cancer cases and the number of deaths caused by the disease are increasing – not decreasing. In fact, the expected number of new pancreatic cancer cases is projected to increase by 55 percent between the years 2010 and 2030.

Little is known about risk factors and there are NO EARLY DETECTION METHODS.

Today, only a few risk factors for pancreatic cancer are known. More research is needed to understand their direct relationship to the disease. Further complicating matters, no early detection methods are available and most symptoms are vague and could be attributed to many different conditions.

• Symptoms include pain (usually abdominal or back pain), weight loss, jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes), loss of appetite, nausea, changes in stool and diabetes.
• The disease is often diagnosed in late stages because of the pancreas’ location in the body, the absence of definitive symptoms, and the lack of early detection methods. In fact, 52 percent of patients are diagnosed when they have advanced (metastatic) disease that has already spread to other organs.

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