Pancreatic Cancer – Quick 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.
- Pancreatic cancer is the 5th leading cause of cancer death in the UK
- In 2008, 8085 people were newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the UK
- In 2009, 8047 people died from pancreatic cancer in the UK
- 22 people a day die from pancreatic cancer [1]
- Relative survival to 5 years is only 3%
- Relative survival to 1 year is less than 20% and is one of the worst rates in Europe
- 82% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the UK will die within a year as most are diagnosed with late stage disease
- 47% of people are diagnosed as an emergency in our A&E departments [2]
- Only 10% of patients are diagnosed in time for potentially curative surgery[3]
- Those who are diagnosed in time for surgery have a 30% chance of surviving five years [4 ]
- It is the 11th most common cancer for men, and the 8th most common cancer for women.
- 40% of patients are under the age of 69 at diagnosis[5 ]
- Deaths from pancreatic cancer increased between 2002 & 2009 while deaths from many other cancers declined
The NCRI (Strategic Analysis 2002) identified that pancreatic cancer is underfunded given its incidence and mortality rates
References
Incidence figures:
Cancer Research UK CancerStats Incidence 2008 – UK April 2011 available online info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats
Mortality figures:
Office for National Statistics Deaths by age, sex and underlying cause, 2009 registrations http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=14409 accessed April 2011
ISD Scotland http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/1498.html accessed April 2011
Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, Queens University, Belfast: Number of deaths and mortality rates by sex: 2005-2009 http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/nicr/ Accessed April 2011
Other statistics:
1 based on 2009 UK mortality figures.
2 NCIN (2010)
3 White et al., (1999) in Sultana et al., (2007) Systematic review, including meta-analysis, on the management of locally advanced pancreatic cancer using radiation/combined modal therapy. British Journal of Cancer 96, 1183-1190
4 Ghaneh et al., (2008) Neoadjuvant and adjuvant strategies for pancreatic cancer EJSO 34 297-305
5 based on Office for National Statistics Statistical Bulletin: Cancer Survival in England patients diagnosed 2004-2008 followed up to 2009 Published 21 April 2011http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/can0411.pdf accessed 30/04/2011
