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Pancreatic Cancer 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

  • In 2011, 8,773 people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer

  • In 2011, 8,320 people died from pancreatic cancer in the UK

  • Relative survival to one year is less than 20% and the UK has one of the worst rates in Europe

  • 23 people a day die from pancreatic cancer

  • Pancreatic cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death in the UK

  • Pancreatic cancer receives only one per cent of overall research funding

  • Only 10% of patients are eligible for potentially curative surgery due to late diagnosis

  • Patients able to have surgery to remove the tumour have up to a 30 per cent chance of surviving five years

  • 50% of people are diagnosed as an emergency in our A&E system

  • The average life expectancy on diagnosis is four to six months

 

 

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