Pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is a malignant tumor of the pancreas. Each year about 37,680 individuals in the United States are diagnosed with this condition, and 34,290 die from the disease. In Europe more than 60,000 are diagnosed each year. Depending on the extent of the tumor at the time of diagnosis, the prognosis is generally regarded as poor, with <5% of those diagnosed still alive five years after diagnosis, and complete remission still extremely rare.About 95 percent of pancreatic tumors are... full article at wikipedia