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Information About Pancreatic Cancer
National Institutes of Health; National Cancer Institute; Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer 2007 Facts
(from www.pancan.org)Every 14 minutes someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
• Pancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of cancerdeath in the United States.
• Pancreatic cancer is the 3rd leading cause of cancer death among 40-59 year old men.
• Approximately 37,170 Americans will diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year.
• There are no early detection methods so the disease is usually diagnosed in the late state.
• Men are 20% more likely to develop cancer of the pancreas than women.
• African Americans are 40% more likely to develop pancreatic cancer than Caucasians.
• Ashkenazi Jews who are carriers of the BRCA2 gene are at greater risk of developing pancreatic cancer.
• In 2006, an estimated $66.7 million dollars of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) cancer research investment was spent on pancreatic cancer research.This is just 1% of the NCI’s $4.8 billion dollar cancer research budget for 2006.
