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Review
. 2018 Jan;105(1):63-69.
doi: 10.1016/j.bulcan.2017.11.004. Epub 2017 Dec 19.

[Epidemiology of pancreatic cancer]

[Article in French]
Antoine Drouillard  1 , Sylvain Manfredi  2 , Côme Lepage  2 , Anne-Marie Bouvier  3
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Review

[Epidemiology of pancreatic cancer]

[Article in French]
Antoine Drouillard et al. Bull Cancer. 2018 Jan.

Abstract

Actually, pancreatic cancer is a major challenge in digestive oncology. Its prognosis remains very poor with a five-year net survival less than 10%. Although if pancreatic cancer incidence was low, data from French digestive cancer registries show a dramatic increase in recent years, more marked in women (annual variation of +3.6% between 1982 and 2012) than in men (+2.3%). The currently recognized risk factors like tobacco or obesity cannot explain this evolving epidemiology. Moreover, progress in understanding pancreatic carcinogenesis is still insufficient. Except for familial aggregation, systematic screening couldn't be proposed.

Keywords: Cancer du pancréas; Epidemiology; Incidence; Pancreatic cancer; Survie; Survival; Épidémiologie.

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