A disease that was once a death sentence is increasingly treatable: Pancreatic Cancer

Ruxandra Teslo in Works in Progress: Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers. Although its five-year survival rate has improved from roughly 4 percent in the mid-1990s to around 13 percent today, it remains among the deadliest of all cancer types. Survival is so poor pa.

Survival is so poor pa.