Prognosis Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer -Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

Patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer typically have a poor prognosis partly because the cancer usually causes no symptoms early on, leading to locally advanced or metastatic disease at time of diagnosis. Median survival from diagnosis is around 3 to 6 months; 5-year survival is less than 5%.[41] With 37,170 cases diagnosed in the United States in 2007, and 33,700 deaths, pancreatic cancer