Pancreatic Cancer

In 2024, an estimated 66,440 adults in the United States will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The disease causes approximately 3% of all cancers. Incidence rates are 25% higher in black people than in white people, and in 2021 there were an estimated 100,669 people living with pancreatic cancer in the United States.

Pancreatic cancer is the ninth most common cancer in women and the tenth most common cancer in men. Most pancreatic cancers (93%) are exocrine adenocarcinoma.

Source of information: www.cancer.net