Pancreatic Cancer 3rd Biggest Cancer Killer In EU

It is believed that the number of deaths from pancreatic cancer will overtake breast cancer mortality in the EU in 2017, according to a new study. These findings were recently presented at UEG Week 2016, and mean that pancreatic cancer will become the third leading cause of death from cancer in the EU behind lung and colorectal cancer. Mortality rates for pancreatic cancer are increasing in many countries across the EU and estimated that 91,500 deaths will occur from the disease next year, compared with 91,000 from breast cancer.

Time-linear prediction models were used by …read more