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 2010, 8,455 people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer1
- In 2010, 7,921 people died from pancreatic cancer in the UK2
- Five-year survival is only three per cent. This figure has not improved in over forty years
- Relative survival to one year is less than 20% and the UK has one of the worst rates in Europe
- 22 people a day die from pancreatic cancer3
- Pancreatic cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death in the UK4
- Pancreatic cancer receives only one per cent of overall research funding5
- 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 years6
- 50% of people are diagnosed as an emergency in our A&E system7
- The average life expectancy on diagnosis is four to six months8
- It is the UK’s ninth most common cancer9
These figures are the latest available statistics on pancreatic cancer (at the time of publication). Because the reporting system for incidence varies with the cancer registries across the countries of the United Kingdom and for mortality published by the ONS, there is usually a delay of approximately 18 months for the collation of incidence and of 12 months for the collation of mortality figures. This is why we, in 2013, are citing figures from 2010.
Footnotes:
- ONS Cancer Statistics Registrations England (Series MB1 – No 41 2010) Released 13 June 2012 ↩
- CRUK The 20 Most Common Causes of Cancer Death: 2010http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/mortality/cancerdeaths/ ↩
- Total UK 2010 mortality divided by 365 days = 21.7 per day ↩
- CRUK The 20 Most Common Causes of Cancer Death: 2010 http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/mortality/cancerdeaths/ ↩
- NCRI CRD Data Package 2011 – available to download online http://www.ncri.org.uk/default.asp?s=1&p=3&ss=6 ↩
- Ghaneh et al., (2008) Neoadjuvant and adjuvant strategies for pancreatic cancer EJSO 34 297-305 ↩
- NCIN (2012) Routes to Diagnosis 2006-2008, England Information Supplement ↩
- Spalding and Williamson (2007) Pancreatic Cancer, Medicine Vol 35, pp 325-329 ↩
- CRUK the 20 most common cancers in the UK 2009 data are available to download online http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/incidence/commoncancers/uk-cancer-incidence- statistics-for-common-cancers ↩
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Information Product No. PCA0032 | Published: 24/10/2012 | Last Updated: 27/03/2013 | Next Review Due: 27/03/2016