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veltcardio2 t1_ita6mlj wrote

Pancreatic cancer death rates are practically unchanged in the last 20 years… it’s probable one of the hardest cancers to treat, aggressive and with an overall survival rate of 5% at 5 years. If you look at other cancers you will see the outlook is way better now, not pancreas. Anyway I hope this goes into clinical trials soon, but the fact remains that we have tried a lot in pancreatic cancer without a lot of luck.

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pm_me_ur_demotape t1_itah4q8 wrote

They sell mice and rats with various expected age of getting cancer on average. Tons of selective breeding to get there. That expected percentage of animals getting cancer at whatever age is the baseline they test these things on.
And like the other person said: mice and rats almost all get cancer eventually.

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PancreaticSurvivor t1_itar61e wrote

In the USA, progress has been made in increasing the 5 year survival rate for all stages and forms of pancreatic cancer. In 2002 the 5 year survival rate was approximately 5.5% and in 2022 the rate is 11.5%. That is a doubling of the rate. More progress has been made in the past two decades then several prior decades combined due to drug development, increased funding by the US Federal Government and private sector for pancreatic cancer research, clinical trials, precision medicine and targeted therapy.

https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/pancreas.html

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