Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Week

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Press Release

London, September 21st 2009: UK Pancreatic Cancer charities have united today to launch Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Week which runs from the 16th to the 22nd November 2009. During that week the individual charities will be organising events to raise awareness among the UK public about this disease. [...]

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Media Briefing

Pancreatic cancer is difficult to diagnose and when it is diagnosed, it is often in the advanced stages. There are few treatment options. Consequently, most patients find that they have untreatable terminal cancer. This awareness week is designed to start making the UK public more aware of a deadly killer which needs more resources for existing patients and for research [...]

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Statistics

Pancreatic cancer has the worst survival rate of all cancers. 5-year survival is only 3%. This figure has not changed in over 40 years.

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