What is Pancreatic cancer?
What is Pancreatic cancer?
- Pancreatic cancer: Pancreatic cancer is a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas.
- Pancreatic cancer: Pancreatic carcinoma is a carcinoma arising from the exocrine pancreas. The overwhelming majority of pancreatic carcinomas are adenocarcinomas. --2002
Source - Diseases Database
- Pancreatic cancer: cancer of the pancreas.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Pancreatic cancer: Introduction
Types of Pancreatic cancer:
Broader types of Pancreatic cancer:
How many people get Pancreatic cancer?
Incidence (annual) of Pancreatic cancer: 30,300 annual cases (SEER 2002 estimate)
Incidence Rate of Pancreatic cancer: approx 1 in 8,976 or 0.01% or 30,300 people in USA [about data]
Lifetime risk of Pancreatic cancer:
1 in 195 women and 1 in 36 men will develop pancreatic cancer during their lifetime in Australia 2000 (AIHW and AACR, AIHW National Mortality Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
Prevalance of Pancreatic cancer:
There were an estimated 27,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer in the US in 1997, with 28,100 deaths from the disease.
(Source: Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology)
Incidence of Pancreatic cancer: In the United States, cancer of the pancreas
is diagnosed in more than 29,000 people every year. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Cancer of the Pancreas: NCI)
Who gets Pancreatic cancer?
Patient Profile for Pancreatic cancer: Typically over 60
Profile for Pancreatic cancer: Most pancreatic cancers occur in
people over the age of 60. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Cancer of the Pancreas: NCI)
Gender Profile for Pancreatic cancer: Men more than women.
Gender Profile for Pancreatic cancer: More men than women are diagnosed
with pancreatic cancer. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Cancer of the Pancreas: NCI)
Race Profile for Pancreatic cancer: African Americans are
more likely than Asians, Hispanics, or whites to get
pancreatic cancer. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Cancer of the Pancreas: NCI)
How serious is Pancreatic cancer?
Prognosis of Pancreatic cancer: Depending on the extent of the cancer at the time of diagnosis, the prognosis is generally regarded as poor; less than 5 percent of those diagnosed are still alive five years after diagnosis.
Complications of Pancreatic cancer:
see complications of Pancreatic cancer
Average life years lost for Pancreatic cancer: 14.0 years (SEER)1
Deaths for Pancreatic cancer: 29,082 deaths reported in USA 1999 (NVSR Sep 2001)
What causes Pancreatic cancer?
Causes of Pancreatic cancer: see causes of Pancreatic cancer
Risk factors for Pancreatic cancer:
see
risk factors for Pancreatic cancer
What are the symptoms of Pancreatic cancer?
Symptoms of Pancreatic cancer:
see symptoms of Pancreatic cancer
Complications of Pancreatic cancer:
see complications of Pancreatic cancer
Can anyone else get Pancreatic cancer?
Contagion of cancer: generally not; see details in contagion of cancer.
More information:
see contagiousness of Pancreatic cancer
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Pancreatic cancer.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Pancreatic cancer.
How is it treated?
Doctors and Medical Specialists for Pancreatic cancer: Surgeon, Oncologist, Radiation oncologist
;
see also doctors and medical specialists for Pancreatic cancer.
Treatments for Pancreatic cancer:
see treatments for Pancreatic cancer
Research for Pancreatic cancer:
see research for Pancreatic cancer
Society issues for Pancreatic cancer
Hospitalization statistics for Pancreatic cancer:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Pancreatic cancer:
- 0.15% (19,220) of hospital consultant episodes were for malignant neoplasm of pancreas in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 80% of hospital consultant episodes for malignant neoplasm of pancreas required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 53% of hospital consultant episodes for malignant neoplasm of pancreas were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 47% of hospital consultant episodes for malignant neoplasm of pancreas were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 30% of hospital consultant episodes for malignant neoplasm of pancreas required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 12.8 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for malignant neoplasm of pancreas in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 9 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for malignant neoplasm of pancreas in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Pancreatic cancer:
Organs and body systems related to Pancreatic cancer include:
Name and Aliases of Pancreatic cancer
Main name of condition: Pancreatic cancer
Class of Condition for Pancreatic cancer: cancer
Other names or spellings for Pancreatic cancer:
Cancer of the pancreas, Exocrine pancreatic cancer, carcinoma of the pancreas, Pancreatic Carcinoma
Carcinoma of pancreas
Source - Diseases Database
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