About pancreatic cancer

• Less than seven per cent of people with pancreatic cancer will survive beyond 5 years in the UK. 

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(Source: ONS)

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• Five year survival for pancreatic cancer has improved very little since the early 1970s. 

• One person dies of pancreatic cancer every hour. Around 8,924 people die every year of the disease in the UK.

• At least 60 per cent of people with pancreatic cancer are not diagnosed until the cancer is at an advanced stage.

• Surgery is the only treatment which could save lives, yet less than ten per cent of people with pancreatic cancer have it. 

• Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival of all the 20 common cancers.

• Around 10,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer per year in the UK. That’s 27 people every day.

• Pancreatic cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer death in the UK.

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(Source: Cancer Research UK)

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• Pancreatic cancer research has historically been underfunded. The disease attracts just 2.1 per cent of the UK cancer research budget!