Pancreatic Cancer Cure

3 years after father passed away, months after Patrick Swayze went the same direction, I wonder: are we ever going to find a pancreatic cancer cure?

I think the first thing I did when I heard about fathers cancer, was googling for a cure. What could be we do to battle the disease?

For what I read on the Internet and what happens with almost any cancer: they are far advanced by the time any symptoms appear. Which is why it is so difficult to treat.

As indicated by five-year survival rate of less than 5 %, successful treatment is rare.

It is a disease that is difficult to manage. It is one of the deadliest cancers, killing more than 95% of sufferers – usually within six months of diagnosis.

However, if the pancreatic cancer is found early, surgical removal may cure it. But in reality only 15 to 20% of pancreatic cancers are detected early enough.

For unknown reasons, pancreatic cancer is also relatively resistant to many chemotherapy drugs. However it seems that several newer drugs are beginning to show promise in increasing the response rate to pancreatic cancer treatment.

Seems is not really what you want to hear when you are looking for a cure though...