HOW BIG IS THE PROBLEM?

One Hundred seventy people are newly diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer each day, which is more than 67,440 people annually. 

In 2024, Pancreatic Cancer remained the 3rd leading cause of Cancer-related death in the United States.  Pancreatic cancer is one of the few cancers with increasing cases and deaths, projected to become the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. by 2030. 

In 2025, an estimated 51,980 Americans will die from Pancreatic Cancer, up from 49,830 in 2022.

 Pancreatic cancer, despite an increase in survival rates since the early 2010s, remains the deadliest major cancer, with 87% of patients dying within five years of diagnosis. 

Pancreatic Cancer is underfunded, receiving less than 3% of the overall cancer research funding.

 The average lifetime risk of pancreatic cancer is about 1 in 64.

There is currently no standard diagnostic tool or established early detection method for Pancreatic Cancer.  A big reason Pancreatic Cancer is a leading cause of Cancer-related death is largely because there are no detection tools to diagnose the disease in its early stages when surgical removal of the tumor is still possible.