Pancreatic cancer rare, very deadly
By admin on Feb 7, 2009 in Pancreatic Cancer News
By Madison Park
(CNN) — Pancreatic cancer is rare and extraordinarily lethal, experts say.
Despite the relatively low number of people affected, about 95 percent of those with pancreatic cancer die from it, experts say.
“Of all the relatively common human cancers, it is by far has the highest death rate and worst outcome,” said Dr. Andrew Lowy, chief of surgical oncology at the Moores University of California, San Diego Cancer Center. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery Thursday for apparent early-stage pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court announced. Actor Patrick Swayze, Apple founder Steve Jobs and Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch, who died in July, also have publicly battled the disease.
Pancreatic cancer ranks as the fourth most common cause of cancer death in the country after lung, colon and breast cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.
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