Pancreatic cancer is a much feared disease due to its notoriously late presentation, early metastases and poor survival rates. Less than a fifth of patients present with localised, potentially curable tumours and the overall five-year survival rate is 7.3%. Pancreatic cancer survival has not shown much improvement in the last 40 years in the UK.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/doctor/pancreatic-exocrine-tumours