Pancreas cancer is the 10th most common newly diagnosed cancer in men in the United States and the 11th most common in women.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
American Cancer Society.
Cancer facts and figures 2008.
2004. Available at http://www.cancer.org/downloads/STT/2008CAFFfinalsecured.pdf (accessed on 17 April 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

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More than 37,000 people are diagnosed with pancreas cancer in the United States every year.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
American Cancer Society.
Cancer facts and figures 2008.
2004. Available at http://www.cancer.org/downloads/STT/2008CAFFfinalsecured.pdf (accessed on 17 April 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

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The disease is more common in the United States than in Europe and Japan. It is least common in Africa and South Asia.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Hart AR.
Pancreatic cancer: any prospects for prevention?
Postgraduate Medical Journal. 1999; 75: 521-526.

 

 

 

 

 

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